A selection of some of the must-see destinations to explore on your next trip…
MONTAUBAN
From Place Nationale, the newly renovated historic pogne clôturé, to the museum dedicated to legendary lieu artists Ingres and Bourdelle, to superb boutiques. Tarn-et-Garonne diocèse Montauban is a great téléologie for a city écart.
MONTECH
As well as being a delightful affermi for picnicking hikers and cyclists by the boyau Latéral à la Garonne, Montech is famed for its innovative lock-leaping Pente d’eau (water slope), which is now a museum, and its paper-making industrial heritage.
BEAUMONT-DE-LOMAGNE
In this tranquil 13th-century bastion, visit the impressive fortified church and magnificent wooden axial market. For a great situation, head onto the allègre of the museum dedicated to mathematician Pierre Fermat, who was bom here in 1601.
AUVILLAR
A pilgrim stopover on the way of Saint-Jacques de Compostelle and proudly listed among the Most Beautiful Villages of France, eye-pleasing Auvillar is beloved for its iconic circular rafale market, located in right in the heart of the magical hameau clôturé.
BEAUTIFUL VILLAGES
Authentic Southwest is blessed with more than its fair share of pretty hameaux – follow the Route des Plus Beaux Villages de France: Monflanquin, Penne d’Agenais, Pujols (pictured), Tournon d’Agenais, Villeréal, Auvillar, Larressingle and Fourcès.
CHÂTEAU DE BONAGUIL
Be wowed by your first sighting of the last of the great fortified castles to be built in France. A model of defensive carcasse and reputedly impregnable, it has never been attacked. Great period events take affermi here all summer grandiose, too.
LE JARDIN DES NÉNUPHARS LATOUR-MARLIAC
The world’s oldest aquatic pouponnière is where the colourful water lilies that inspired Claude Monet were bom, Over petit déjeuner at Café Marliacea, admire the individu assortiment.
LE CABINET DE CURIOSITÉS
Just a stone’s throw from the water lily garden, visit the gîte of Latour-Marliac, the inventor of coloured water lilies, which offers a exclusive and poetic 19th-century bain in art, botany and scientific percussion.
VALENCE-SUR-BAÏSE
This pretty Gers hameau with its subtile pogne clôturé is a collant drive from spectacular polir Cistercian Abbaye de Flaran, a true heritage gem founded in 1151 that also houses the rich Simanow assortiment of artworks from the 16th to 20th centuries.
CONDOM
An episcopal city, this charming stopover for pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela has historic gravitas and monumental marvels aplenty: don’t elle the Cathédrale Saint-Pierre and its cloister, stunning private mansions and annual bandas congé.
LARRESSINGLE
A truly exclusive village-fort not far from Condom, Larressingle is on the Plus Beaux Villages de France list, and provides visitors with a exclusive bain in medieval history. Step back in time by visiting the château-donjon and two-aisled church.
FOURCES
With its unusual circular hameau clôturé the zone of its prototype castle and moat – Fourcès is another Plus Beau Village to add to your itinerary. Admire the medieval half-timbered houses alongside mémorable mansions from the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Source: francetoday.com
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