Selection of the most beautiful monuments in Midi-Pyrénées

Chemins de Compostelle - Voie du Puy-en-Velay
82200 Moissac

Saint-Pierre de Moissac Abbey, a former Benedictine abbey of the 7th–15th centuries, is a Romanesque and Gothic jewel located in Moissac in Occitanie, famous for its 12th century tympanum and cloister classified as UNESCO.

Chemins de Compostelle - Voie du Puy-en-Velay
12320 Conques-en-Rouergue

The Abbey of Sainte-Foy de Conques, jewel of 11th century Romanesque art located in Conques-en-Rouergue in Occitanie, is a pilgrimage church famous for its tympanum of the Last Judgment and its medieval treasure, integrated into the paths of Santiago de Compostela.

Château fort
12330 Salles-la-Source

The Château du Colombier, built in the 14th and 15th centuries in Salles-la-Source (Aveyron), is a fortified medieval den, emblematic of ruergate seigneurial architecture, with dungeon and preserved dovecotes.

Château fort
12390 Belcastel

Belcastel Castle, a medieval 8th century fortress, dominates the Aveyron Valley in Belcastel (Occitanie). Ranked a historic monument, it combines defensive architecture and exemplary restoration by Fernand Pouillon.

Château fort
12500 Espalion

The chapel of Calmont-d'Olt, a vestige from the 11th to the 15th century, is located in Espalion (Aveyron). Integrated with the castle overlooking the Lot Valley, it illustrates the medieval castral architecture of the Rouergue.

Architecture gothique méridionale
31000 Toulouse

The church of the Jacobins of Toulouse, a gothic jewel of the 13th-XIVth centuries, is a former Dominican brick convent, famous for its mineral palm and relics of Saint Thomas of Aquinas, located in the city centre near the Capitol.

Châteaux cathares
09300 Montségur

The castle of Montsegur, a 13th century medieval fortress, dominates the village of the same name in Ariège (Occitanie). Symbol of the Cathar resistance, it was the scene of a tragic siege in 1244.

Château fort
12360 Gissac

The castle of Montaigut, castle fort of the 12th and 15th centuries, dominates the Camarès Rougier in Gissac, Occitanie. Ranked a historical monument, it combines medieval defensive architecture and Renaissance transformations, now restored for cultural animations.