Gourmet products local specialties and wines Mazeres

A "living heritage" address more than a century old. The Fontès delicatessen, and its famous Galavard du Terrefort, a heavy pig raised in Ariège, benefits from this distinction. Christian Fontès works with 3 breeders of this Galavard transformed at the delicatessen into dry ham, sausage, regional cooked dishes. Christian Fontès' products are also available at the Vié delicatessen in Pamiers. Those who don't like pork can stock up on excellent goose or duck foie gras, confits, duck breasts, stuffed neck..

Traditional market and live poultry every Thursday in the square and under the market hall. Mazères still has a 13th century church with choir paintings and a beautiful market hall dating from 1846. Three kilometres to the south-east of Mazères was the abbey of Boulbonne, founded in 1129 and so famous in the Cathar era that it was considered the Saint-Denis of the Counts of Foix, in reference to the glorious basilica of Saint-Denis. Boulbonne was an intense centre of cultural, religious, political and economic life.