Maison Pécou Factory, Confectionery store in Montauban, France
Usine Maison Pécou is a confectionery factory with a direct sales shop in Montauban, in southern France, where sweets such as dragées, chocolates, marshmallows and other sugar confections are made and sold on site. The shop sits in the city center, connecting the production floor with a straightforward retail space.
Maison Pécou was founded in 1880 as a small family workshop focused on making dragées for local celebrations. Five generations later, the business grew into one of France's recognized dragée producers while keeping its original craft methods.
Maison Pécou is best known for its dragées, sugar-coated almonds that are a long-standing French tradition at baptisms, weddings and other celebrations. Visitors can buy them loose by weight, choosing the flavors and quantity they want.
The factory shop is in central Montauban and easy to reach on foot from the surrounding streets and points of interest. It is open on weekdays, so plan your visit from Monday to Friday.
One product almost impossible to find outside Montauban is the boulet, a small round sweet made from sugared paste that is a local specialty. Visitors leaving the shop often pick one up as a treat that does not exist anywhere else.
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