Since 1994, Auvillar has been a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association with its harbor area and outstanding monuments like the circular hall, the clock tower and the Church of St. Peter.

Auvillar is a stop for tourists and pilgrims on the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage route.

After the long plain, a suspension bridge crosses the Garonne between Espalais and Auvillar port.

First known as a city Gallo-Romane (Alta Villa) Auvillar was an oppidum set on a rocky outcrop.

In the seventeenth to the nineteenth century Auvillar owed its prosperity to two industries, pottery (the plant was located at a place called Lance), and the preparation of pens of goose feathers used in calligraphy.