Sadly, the old fortifications were claimed by these conflicts or removed to building the Episcopal Palace in 1663.Montauban’s natural history collection is on the first floor of this noble-looking palace on Place Antoine Bourdelle.The Neoclassical building warrants a mention because it used to be the Cour des Aides, the sovereign court during the Ancien Régime, concerned with public finance and customs.Before you step through the doors, prepare yourself for an army of taxidermies of birds, mammals and reptiles.Among them are monkeys, elephant and kangaroo, and though they won’t be to everyone’s taste the minerals and fossils might be: There are phosphorites from Quercy going back as far as 50 million years and fragments of the Orgueil meteorite, which fell in the region in 1864.Montauba is unusual as its cathedral isn’t one of the blockbuster attractions.The monument stands at the highest point of the city and clashes with the rest of Montauban as its facade is made from white stone instead of red brick.For a lot of the 16th century and up to 1629 Montauban had been protestant.The Huguenots had destroyed the old medieval cathedral in 1560 and this Classical replacement wasn’t started until the late 17th century.The scale of the building are astonishing, and the central portal is the highest in Europe, higher even than St Peter’s Basilica in Rome.On the left transept is the Ingres painting, “Vœu de Louis XIII” from 1824.Opened in 2013, Montauban’s aquatic centre is much more than just a municipal pool; it’s the third-largest aquatic complex in France and is as much for tourists as it is for locals.There are six indoor and outdoor pools, a hammam, saunas, a state-of-the-art gym and a balcony area where you can unwind.Kids have play pools and slides to splash about in, while grownups and serious swimmers will be crazy for the Olympic size outdoor pool.This is even open in winter, when the water is heated to more than 20°, even as the outdoor temperature falls below zero.Along with the Pont Vieux this church is the only vestige of medieval times in Montauban.The oldest part of the church is also the most spectacular; the octagonal bell-tower dates right back to the 1200s and is on top of a slightly newer base with machicolations.The church suffered during the French Wars of Religion, when its clergy where massacred and the building was used as a fortress and arsenal.If you study the facade you can still make out the damage caused by cannonballs when the city fended off a royal siege in 1621.In the park around the Ingreo pool complex is a museum charting the history of the Second World War in the region around Montauban.It was founded in 1989 when a former Resistance deportee put on an exhibition of memorabilia from the war.Since then many donations have expanded the museum’s cache of Second World War artefacts, and you’ll now be given a thorough chronological account of how the war unfolded locally.There are displays dealing with the internment camp in Septfronds and the contingent of foreign fighters fighting alongside the Resistance during the occupation.As you’re little more than 20 minutes away from this medieval masterpiece it would be a pity not to see it.Moissac Abbey is a UNESCO Site as a historic stop on the Way of St James pilgrimage to Compostela, and its architecture and decoration are from the 11th and 12th centuries.The complexity and quantity of Romanesque sculpture is almost unrivalled, and you can expect to lose track of time staring at these carvings made almost a millennium ago.Start with the church’s tympanum above the portal, representing the apocalypse in the Book of Revelations.And then tiptoe round to the cloister, which has 76 astonishing capitals illustrating Old and New Testament stories, as well as the life of the martyrs.Also well within range is one of France “most beautiful villages” poised on a cliff over the Aveyron Gorge.The first thing you’ll see are the towers of the two medieval castles that control the town.The older of these dates to the 1100s, and was the home of William of Tudela who composed the Song of the Albigensian Crusade, detailing the brutal 13th-century suppression of the Cathar sect.If you suffer from vertigo avoid the view from the gallery over the cliff! : 05.63.92.81.90 Consultations, échographies, orthogénie (IVG), Contraception, conseil conjugal. Centre de Formation Montauban Natation, Montauban. Ajouter des informations.
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