A working village in the Quercy countryside
Touffailles lies in the Pays de Serres in Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitanie. INSEE counted 330 residents across the entire commune in its 2023 census; the published geographic reference is 1 January 2026. Its 2023 tables record 168 households and 268 dwellings, 35.5% of them secondary or occasional homes. The commune belongs to the Castelsarrasin arrondissement, the Pays de Serres Sud-Quercy canton and the Communauté de communes du Pays de Serres en Quercy. INSEE places it in the Moissac living area and outside a defined urban unit or 2020 city attraction area. A local intercommunal page describes 2,434 hectares of rural land and a landscape shaped by fields, orchards and livestock.
The community account describes a varied farming economy rather than a single crop: grain and sunflower on the plateaus, garlic and seed production, vegetables and livestock, including cattle and Lacaune sheep. Ente plum trees remain part of the landscape and are used for Agen prunes. The same page says lavender was grown widely in the 1950s and 1960s and that distillation was reintroduced locally from 2006. INSEE counted 12 employer establishments at the end of 2024; those figures complement, but do not replace, the commune’s account of agriculture and small-scale activity.
Churches, a reused stone and the ruins at Lastours
The parish church of Saint-Christophe is Touffailles’ clearest documented landmark. The Ministry of Culture’s architectural inventory dates its main construction campaign to the second half of the fifteenth century, with further work probably in the first half of the sixteenth. It notes a reused sarcophagus from the High Middle Ages serving as the lintel at the cemetery entrance, and decor from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The church was classified as a Monument historique in 1991. These inventory dates are more cautious than a simplified local claim that the whole building dates from the seventh century.
The community page also lists the church of Saint-Germain d’Auxerre at Moissaguel, the chapel of Saint-Gervais at La Tuque and Sainte-Livrade, which it describes as disused. At Lastours, it identifies remaining tower ruins with a castle dated there to 1310–1330. Those notes make a useful heritage itinerary, but they do not establish current opening or access to every building; check locally before planning an interior visit.
Paths, everyday services and a sensible stop
The commune’s page names walks associated with the box trees and fountains and describes several paths around the village. It does not give a current distance, downloadable map or full status for those named walks. Ask the mairie or local tourist office for the current route sheet rather than assuming a route length or marking from an old reference. The official public-service directory lists reception at the mairie in Le Bourg on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 13:30 to 18:00; confirm those hours before travelling. INSEE’s 2025 equipment inventory lists one bakery, a primary school, a library and an electric-vehicle charging point. It lists no doctor, nurse or pharmacy in the commune, so plan health and grocery needs in advance. There is no claim here that the churches, paths or local businesses keep daily visitor hours.
