Located at the gates of Auch, Montégut is a village perched around an imposing castle. This is the layout of the place which earned him his name, it would be assigned to him since the Roman period or Gallo-Roman (Monte Accuto). Gascon Occitan language or also include the Mount Agut.
The village had to be fortified in the Middle Ages, the current portal would be the place of the old drawbridge. The oldest parts of the castle date from the thirteenth century as the most Gascon castles (built during the Hundred Years War). It was remodeled in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when the Renaissance to make it more comfortable. The third and last period of renovation is at the eighteenth and nineteenth to give the present appearance of a rectangular house with two square towers and extensive terraces with balustrades all surrounded by a French garden. This building is private and can not be visited.
Nearby, the town is Castle Roquetaillade (nineteenth century) wide façade with a slate roof including the stables of the eighteenth century. Currently this building is a pediatric rehabilitation center that belongs to the Order of Malta. The chapel is Roquetaillade novel appearance; inside one can notice a clam on antique ribbed column and a statue of St Jacques dates back to the seventeenth century. The town is crossed by the Arles route of the path of Saint-Jacques de Compostela declared World Heritage by UNESCO.
Since the trail crosses Roquetaillade remarkable landscapes where ocean climate and Mediterranean climate are competing for influence on flora and fauna. Four kilometers away, perched on a rocky plumb, the village is taking shape at the bend of the wood fairies including a former mill is also known (tour fairies).
