Selection of the most beautiful monuments in Midi-Pyrénées

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
12480 Brousse-le-Château

The Château de Brousse, a former castle of the 10th century renovated in the 16th and 19th centuries, dominates Brousse-le-Château in Aveyron. Ranked a historical monument, it illustrates the military architecture of the Rouergue with its walls, towers and seigneurial residence Renaissance.

Eglise romane
12100 Comprégnac

The church of Saint Christophe de Peyre, semi-troglodytic and fortified, dates from the Middle Ages and the 16th century. Located in Comprégnac en Aveyron, it dominates the Tarn valley with its Romanesque and defensive elements.

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.

Eglise gothique
09210 Lézat-sur-Lèze

The Abbey of Saint-Antoine-et-Saint-Pierre de Lézat-sur-Lèze, a former Benedictine abbey founded around 950, is located in Occitanie. This historic monument, linked to the order of Cluny, was active until 1776.

Château fort
12600 Lacroix-Barrez

The castle of Valon, the ruin of a 14th century castle, dominates the valley of Truyère in Lacroix-Barrez in Aveyron. Ranked a historical monument in 1925, it bears witness to a medieval defensive architecture with dungeon and scauguettes.

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.

Eglise romane
12120 Comps-la-Grand-Ville

The Notre-Dame Abbey of Bonnecombe, founded in 1162, is a Cistercian abbey located in Comps-la-Grand-Ville in Aveyron, marked by a rich religious and architectural history until the 20th century.