Cazeneuve, Gers
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Cazeneuve is a commune
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Gers
Gers
The Gers is a department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in the southwest of France named after the Gers River.Inhabitants are called les Gersois or Gersoises.-History:...

 department in southwestern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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The commune is a part of the canton of Montréal
Canton of Montréal, Gers
The French canton of Montréal lies in the Gers which is itself a component of the region Midi-Pyrénées, in the area formerly called Gascony, southwest France. The canton lies around Montréal in the arrondissement of Condom, the altitudes vary between 64 m...

 where at the last population count (1999) in an area of more than 240 km² there were only 4741 inhabitants.

In the neighbourhood are numerous old castles, little medieval walled villages, small cities built around castles and "sacred" places, because the Via Podiensis and the Way of St. James
Way of St. James
The Way of St. James or St. James' Way is the pilgrimage route to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition has it that the remains of the apostle Saint James are buried....

of Compostela are going through the Montréal and left their traces.

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