Agen Agen is a town and commune located in the Aquitaine région in southern France, on the river Garonne, 84 miles southeast of Bordeaux. It is the capital of the Lot-et-Garonne département.

FACTS AND FIGURES

• Population: 30,000
• The first bishop of Agen known to history is St. Phoebadius
• In France, it is famous as the 'capital of the prune'. This is a local produce, which you can most notably buy either as a sweet or as an after-dinner delight prunes soaked in Armagnac - a type of brandy
• It has a very small airport mostly used for business flights and leisure flying.'

SIGHTS AND ATTRACTIONS

• 12th century cathedral St. Caprais, is one of the barest handful of large churches in France with a double nave
• Church of the Jacobins