Peguilhan

Péguilhan
Coat of arms
Péguilhan
Location within Occitanie region  Péguilhan
Coordinates: 43°18′54″N 0°42′29″E / 43.315°N 0.7081°E / 43.315; 0.7081Coordinates: 43°18′54″N 0°42′29″E / 43.315°N 0.7081°E / 43.315; 0.7081
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Haute-Garonne
Arrondissement	Saint-Gaudens
Canton	Boulogne-sur-Gesse
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Michel Brocas
Area1	18.48 km2 (7.14 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	238
• Density	13/km2 (33/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	31412 / 31350
Elevation	218–345 m (715–1,132 ft) (avg. 347 m or 1,138 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Péguilhan is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France in the historical region of Gascony.

Péguilhan has far-reaching views towards the Pyrenees. It is surrounded by woodland and open countryside and a mixture of arable and livestock farming. Some houses in the area have been bought by British incomers, although the majority in recent times have been Dutch and German.

It was the possibly birthplace of Aimeric de Peguilhan, a medieval troubadour, although this is debated.

The river Gesse flows northwards through the commune towards the market town of Boulogne-sur-Gesse; the Gimone forms most its western border.

Péguilhan is the setting for Martin Calder's travel memoir A Summer in Gascony, a charming story of life on a farm with a local Gascon family, centred on the Auberge at the end of the village. The book is set some time in the early 1990s and was published in 2008 by Nicholas Brealey publishing.