Selection of the most beautiful monuments in Occitanie

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
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.

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.

Cloître
66200 Elne

The cloister of Elne, a medieval jewel from the twelfth to the fourteenth century in Elne (Occitanie), is a masterpiece of Romanesque and Gothic sculpture, classified as a historical monument since 1840. Former residence of the canons, it illustrates the artistic evolution of the Roussillon.

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.

Place
34000 Montpellier

The Place de la Comédie in Montpellier, located in Occitanie, is an emblematic space hosting the Opéra Comédie. Its history remains linked to the cultural life of the city.

Phare classé MH
34200 Sète

The Mont-Saint-Clair lighthouse, built at the beginning of the 20th century in Sète (Occitanie), is an octagonal 23-metre stone tower, marking the entrance to the port. It dominates the marine cemetery and the Paul-Valéry Museum.

Pont du Diable
34600 Villemagne-l'Argentière

The Pont du Diable de Villemagne-l'Argentière, built at the end of the 18th century in the Hérault, is a 14-metre-long masonry work, classified as a historic monument, which was used for the transportation of coal to the Herepian Royal Glassworks.