La Bastide, Avenue des Thermes 32150 Cazaubon − France
Nestled in the Armagnac vineyards of Gascony, under the shade of old plane trees, stands this beautiful 18th century charterhouse.
Restored in an elegant french style, the lounges and 25 rooms and suites distil a warm atmosphere. Two large fireplaces for winter time and an outside italian gallery for sunny days, set the scene of a gorgeous restaurant and delicious local cuisine.
In the garden, a cosy spa of 500 m² embraces a nurturing philosophy embodied by natural body and facial treatments, and genuine 20 000-year mineral water springs.
In the heart of Gascony, in Barbotan, a small spa village surrounded by Armagnac vineyards, discover an amazing country destination, made of bespoke hedonistic experiences.
Nestled in the village, in a century-old parc
Hidden behind the sculptural XIth-Century-old Church, La Bastide sits proudly on top of Barbotan spa village. Before climbing up the stone front steps, a walk through the gardens will enchant you with their huge plane tree canopy, bonzai-shaped yews and andalusian fountains.
Every Wednesday, a lively country market livens up Main Street. It is Gascony in its warmest and joyful expression.
The stone arcades of its ochre facade reminds the delicate curved lines of an Italian Palazzo.
Once inside, a succession of lavish salons and dining rooms shelters a select collection of genuine antiques, paintings and curios, cherished by the owners.
Enjoy an afternoon by the fire in the library, a summer dinner under the lime tree, relaxing in the soft cushions of our sofas with a glass of tawny Armagnac from our vines ; the harmony of Gascony’s luminous simplicity celebrates these exquisite pleasures.
Each one of the light-filled, very spacious rooms and suites is different, all of them are an ode to well-being and serenity.
Their decoration is a stylish, colourful reinterpretation of French countryside style. Shades of warm colours ranging from ochre to dusky pink, grege to chestnut plus saffron echo prints that pay tribute to the purity of whitewashed walls and ceruse beams.
La Bastide is the hospitality part of a widder estate, which produces Armagnac spirit since 1967, under the label of Château de Sandemagnan.
Max Dumolié is the oenologist ; he was born and grew up in Barbotan. His carreer binds intimately with La Bastide’s and the Guérard-Barthélémys’, whom he has been accompanying land and wine projects since the begining
He receives in Sandemagnan wine and history lovers and narrates them how Armagnac is made, what makes it different from other spirits such as Cognac.
This narration is followed by tasting to understand the beauty and shades of “eau de vie”.
In 1983, a beautiful huge brass alambic (still) was accomodated in the Cellar.
Every november, a festive period called “la Flamme“ (the flame) takes place : white wine is distilled in the Alambic, night and day. The lucky ones who may pop in at this frosty time, will enjoy a very warm pre-dinner drink, by the still.
Located between Mont-de-Marsan, Pau, Bordeaux, Agen et Toulouse in the Gascony spa village of Barbotan, in the South West of France La Bastide ***** is a charming hotel of 25 rooms and suites.
Proud member of Relais & Châteaux since 2011, La Bastide offers luxury accomodations and the region’s most robust collection of amenities, activities and services including gastronomic and healthy restaurant, hot spring spa, wellness retreats, fitness, Armagnac tasting, mountain biking and gorgeous picnic baskets.
We look forward to welcoming you and fostering many happy memories!
IN YOUR ROOM
IN THE HOTEL
IN BARBOTAN
The elegant spirit of a french family House
Three color tones adorn these spacious rooms (25 to 34 m²) : natural and graphic for the “pullet” scenery, bright and warm for the “Cupid” decor, cool and feminine in the “Dot” rooms:
The spacious bathrooms are filled with natural light and include a walk-in rain shower and vanity.
Insider Tip
Some of our guest rooms connect together, which makes this arrangement perfect for parents and children who seek intimacy.
Should you whish this type of room, please notify it at the reservation.
Babies under 2 are our guest in their parents’ room (baby cot is complimentary).
Le Raffinement d’un Relais & Châteaux, l’esprit d’une Maison de famille en France
Under the south terracotta old tiles, our these deluxe accommodations feature clean architectural lines that blend French countryside details with a modern bright style. The open layout of the Junior Suites is inspired by the colors of Pierre Frey beautiful fabric.
The addition of custom furnishings, oak wooden floor, white linen and Briare mosaic provides an exquisitely relaxing environment.
The spacious bathrooms are filled with natural light and feature a huge walk-in shower, vanity and fresh flowers.
Insider Tip
These large rooms are perfect for long stays and family with infants !
Babies are our guests in their parents’ room (complimentary cot).
The elegant spirit of a french family House
Each suite features a generous open lounge area with mellow sofa and armchairs. The decoration is defenitely refined with original paintings and art photographs.
The suites offer custom furnishings including a super king-sized bed, oversized armchairs, ottoman and worktable. Accommodations are fully outfitted with 35” high definition televisions, as well as high-speed wireless internet.
The spacious bathrooms are filled with natural light and include a separate walk-in rain shower and double vanity, and one of the suites boasts a sculptural Pyrénées marble tub.
Insider Tip
These large suites are perfect for families !
Sofas can be turned into soft beds (180×70 cm) and accommodate children up to 12 (extra charge may apply).
Suite N°4 can sleep 2 adults and 2 kids(on sofa beds).
The elegant spirit of a french familiy House
Nestled between ancient stone walls, these 2 vast apartments (64-73 m²) have a private terrace, overlooking the rose garden.
Their design creates a romantic, country-inn atmosphere through a muted color palette of sand, old terracotta and ocher. The addition of custom furnishings, sculptural bathtubs, bee-waxed floors, original paintings and fine antiques make for an exquisitely relaxing environment, providing a true sense of serenity and escape.
The bathroom features a separate walk-in rain shower, double vanity, and a sculptural Pyrénées marble tub.
The Aramis Suite comprises a bedroom, separate living room that includes a spacious seating area, queen sofa and work desk.
The d’Artagnan Suite, features a large open floor plan, with an adjacent living space and a beautiful english workdesk.
Accommodations are fully outfitted with 35″ high definition televisions, as well as high-speed wireless internet to keep you connected to the world outside.
Insider Tip
The Aramis suite is perfectly designed to accomodate families comfortably.
For larger families, it is possible to connect 2 of these suites, allowing our guests to accomodate up to 6 people (extra bed charges may apply).
La Bastide Thermal Baths
Hidden in La Bastide’s Gardens, the Thermal Spa is built around a central gallery that reminds the Gallo-Roman baths. The Spa features an elegantly simple interior designed to blend a delicate decoration of stone and ivory enamels and the most contemporary spa innovations.
Barbotan’s hot spring is 20 000 year old. Its purity and abundance of minerals makes it the perfect natural healing for bones, joints and muscles.
The Thermal Spa Facilities :
WELLNESS AND HEALTH THERMAL RETREATS AT LA BASTIDE
All our retreats protocols rely on the know-how and expertise of Chaîne Thermale du Soleil, the french leading company in thermal spa resorts.
Each program has been designed to meet custom needs and high levels of efficiency.
All our retreats and breaks include free access to the spa.
BARBOTAN’S THERMAL WATER
Barbotan’s mineral water is drilled 120 meters under the surface. It is a very ancient water, dated of more than 20 000 years. This venerable age guaranties its purity and its bounty in healing minerals, thanks to a millenar way down through the earth’s crust.
These therapeutic properties have been distinguished by the National Academy of Medicine.
Chill out and unwind in Gascony
In South West, times takes an other dimension, and the gardens invite our guests to rest and farniente.
Places dedicated to relaxation and meditation punctuate La Bastide’s layout : one specially devised for each hour of the day.
After breakfast, the gallery ottomans are the major spot to browse the News or dive into an enthralling novel. In the afternoon, our swimming pool, in the nothern lawn, houses youngters and grown up, while spa lovers devote themselves to serenity.
Swimming Pool
The Bastide’s swimming pool is perfect for lounging on oversized chaises, underneath the Gascony Sun. Relax on wicker sunbeds, sipping fruit cocktails or local wines.
The swimming pool is open from 9.00 to 19.00.
Thermal Spa
Treat yourself with personalised rituals, rejuvenating massages and treatments, and ultra-efficient health retreats.Bliss for body and soul … Say goodbye to fatigue, stress and tensions ! and embrace a nurturing and natural philosophy inspired by a rich bounty of vegetal essences and oils. As well as the healing mineral water and clay of Barbotan hot springs.
Jacuzzi and steam bath are open to all the residents (over 14 year old) everyday from 9.00 to 19.00.
Gardens
Behind the Medieval Porch starts La Bastide South Garden. Watched over by old plane trees, this garden has been designed as a no-flower but sculptural arrangement. Beds of waving penicetum, topiary yews and andalusian fountains round off this green scenery, A secret garden, one mile away, provides La Bastide with beautiful, rustic roses that illuminates the hotel decor with bright and colorful touches.
Salons
Among the Bastide’s various lounges and patios, the Fireplace Lounge offers guests a welcoming setting in which to unwind and enjoy good company. Its distinguishing features are surely its superb Louis XIII fireplace, its huge bookcase and cabochon floor.
Gentle Fitness at La Bastide
Work out with comprehensive fitness equipment at the Thermes Fitness Center, including treadmills, cycles and elliptical machines. The Fitness Center is comfortably furnished with towels, and natural light.
Our Fitness Center suggests several classes (french speaking) every afternoon from Monday to Saturday.
Visit the most emblematic Armagnac Wineries
The enjoyment of wine and Armagnac is a part of life in Gascony.
The major part of Armagnac properties are family owned, for decades. And we know all the legendary families by name!
Passionate vintners, century-old estates and exceptional spirits, hid out at the end of a peeble path, a few miles away from La Bastide.
Allow us to introduce you!
Enjoy a pastoral sunny day, walking through the cellars of domaines Laberdolive and Tariquet, Château de Laubade, and Château de Maniban.
Discover La Bastide’s Vineyard and Armagnac Cellar
In 1957, when the Barthélémy family bought up La Bastide, they also purchased a 40-hectare vineyard, located on the best Barbotan soils, perched on sunny hills. Named Château de Sandemagnan, after a noble old mansion in the estate, our winery produced its first vintage in 1967.
Ever since, we have been perpetuating the tradition, as we turn into spirit a lumpy green white wine called “Folle Blanche” (White Fool). Every November, we distill it a a huge brass still. The white spirit is then place into oak barrels, when it will age for decades, acquiring amber and tawny shades.
Our cellar is open to visits (in French only) from Monday to Friday, excluding bank holidays and harvest.
Hiking and biking at the foot of the Property
Country activities rule in Gascony !
La Bastide offers mountain bikes to run a wonderful no-car forest track of 50 kilometers : the Voie Verte du Marsan et de l’Armagnac.This track, arranged after the old railway were removed, connects Gabaret to Mont-de-Marsan, snaking across the sunflower hills and vineyards.
The no-car regulation makes it the perfect activity for parents and children.
One mile away from La Bastide, the Uby Lake’s banks have been lanscaped with great biking, hiking and running tracks.
Pamper your body with a sporty and nature break in our hotel !
Pique-Nique Royal à emporter
After a day of running the Gascony roads, your appetite will be ready for just a little bit more discoverywith the Chef’s Royal Picnic Basket.
This lavish wicker basket treats you with selection of local and home made delights : Gascon black pig ham, farm chicken, garden salad, sourdough artisan bread, home made madeleines and smoked salmon … and of course a chilled bottle of rosé !
This travelling meal has to be booked 48 hours in advance.
On the Saint-James’s Way
Wide-open spaces, silence, light, serenity: in Gascony you’ll find the authenticity, atmosphere and splendour of the pilgrim’s journey to Santiago de Compostela. Our region is traversed by long stretches of France’s main St James’s Way pilgrimage routes, paths alive with centuries of history that you can discover and share, an unforgettable experience in which the journey counts more than the destination.
The legendary Le Puy route, the best known and most popular in modern times, enters Midi-Pyrénées shortly before the village of Aubrac. From there to the little village of Barcelone du Gers, the path follows a route that illustrates lavishly the period when the pilgrimage to the tomb of St James in Galicia was at the height of its splendour.
The region Tourism Board has lauched a very convenient App to scan through the monument and landscapes of this legendary Way.
Country of d’Artagnan and the musketeers, our region holds the key to a charming stay in the countryside. It offers rolling and luminous landscapes, flavours and tones of character, a philosophy of the time, a culture of delight to all the senses, leisure activities propitious for recharging one’s batteries and tourism to be discovered all year round from fortified towns to medieval castles.
Gascony Heritage
The fortified towns, small castles and small free villages contain the monuments of the civil and religious heritage, wealth of an ancient history.
The routes to Santiago de Compostela go up and down the department. Villages with character invite you to thousands of detours in the Gers.
Beautiful, authentic and listed historical villages and places such as La Romieu’s Collegiate church, Terme’s Medieval Tower, Labastide-d’Armagnac square, dot Gers landscapes every 10 kilometers : every mile is a step into french history and local culture.
PLACES NOT TO BE MISSED :
Eauze and the Archeological Museum (15 km)
Fortified Village and Castle of Larressingle (XIII th Century)
Montréal-du-Gers – First Gascony Bastide, built in 1255
Gallo-Roman Villa of Séviac (in Montréal)
Cistercian Abbay of Flaran
Circular Bastide (fortified village) of Fourcès
Long live la Fête !
As the spring shows up, the sound of the bandas (brass bands), Gascon, traditional, Latin, jazz, country, or classical rhythms… ring out in the village squares.
Corridas, bull races and traditional games enliven the whole area and remind visitors that Gascons are Iberians’ cousins.
Whether they are festive, sports-orientated or cultural, our local events will delight you an provide you with wonderful memories, for Gascony knows how to talk to your heart!
A warm place, for a delicious while …
Under the Bastide Archway nestles a luminous Restaurant.
With its huge Antique Dresser, made of Gascony oak, the Restaurant provides an elegant and warm Decor : “cabochon” tiled floor, fireplace, antique paintings and furniture …
A romantic supper or a family celebration are perfect occasions to savour our two Cuisines.
A Terrace bathed in light
Before having dinner, meet up with your friends under the archway for a glass of champagne in this improvised nature lounge.
Enjoy our Gascony fruity wines, in front of a magical panorama of secular plane trees and cool fountains.
Our Restaurant also offers a large Terrace, where you may have an alfresco lunch or dinner, under large white sunshades.
Cuisine d’Appétit at La Bastide
South West richesses naturally inspire our Chef, Jérôme Artiguebère : delicious Foie-Gras and Poultry from the Landes, Gascony Black Pig, strawberries, plums and tomatoes grown in the Garonne Valley…
Under the creative guidance of Grand Chef, Michel Guérard, the Bastide Restaurant offers a four-season cuisine, that reinvents French “Classiques” crossed withexotic culinary horizons.
For lovers of light, natural yet flavoursome food, our Santé-Nature Cuisine offers a fresh menu that perfectly balances healthy eating with gastronomic pleasures.
More than 200 recipes rely on fresh produce, fruit, vegetable, rich of vitamines, antioxidant, fishes, and omegas acid.
This menu varies everyday, and is proposed to our guests who stay three nights or more at La Bastide.
Our kitchen “Brigade” is very keen in adjusting our meals to food intolerances, allergies and special diets. Please let us know if you require any adaptation.
Morning is the best part of the day …
Start a fresh new day with our robust Gascon country breakfast !
Enjoy our authentic breakfast dining room, adorned with a beautiful Louis XV wood panelling. In winter and autumn, the restaurant reserves a friendly welcome to our guests, with its fireplace. On sunny days, the west terrace is a must do, for a healthy moment, very close to Nature.
The choice and quality of our breakfast buffet is appreciated by all: A large variety of artisan breads and homemade cakes, cereals and an organic buffet, yogurts, jams and honey from the surroundings, buttered croissants, Pyrénées cheese, local cures meats, …
For a relaxing morning, breakfast in your room or on your private terrace is an affordable caprice …
As 8 O’Clock strikes, our Brigade offers freshly cooked egg specialties : omelettes, scrambled, fried ….
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Hotel: La Bastide en Gascogne
Address: La Bastide, Avenue des Thermes 32150 Cazaubon
Region: The Greater South West
Country: France
Official website: http://www.bastide-gasconne.com/en/
Telephone: +33 (0)5 62 08 31 00
Hotel email: labastide@chainethermale.fr