The city of Auch (23,500 inhabitants) is the administrative centre of the Gers, a rural department which is one of 8 making up the Midi-Pyrenees region.

It benefits from a privileged location, in the heart of the South-West of France, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, 1 hr away only from Toulouse, the regional metropolis and from the Pyrenees, and approximately 2 hrs from Bordeaux.