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Discover tarn and garonne
Topic | Sciences and discovery |
Departure | MONTAUBAN (82) |
Details | Visit the department of tarn et garonne, its beautiful villages and its green valleys. |
Montauban, a town in the countryside
After having crossed a campaign rich in orchards and coloured fields, you arrive at Montauban, pink brick city which knew to keep its identity, to renovate its pilot monuments of an animated history and fact face with the challenges of the future. Easy of access, near to Toulouse but not too, town of tomorrow it attracts new companies while preserving its quality of life. Its malls where it is good to walk lead you to the National Place of the 17th century, in the middle of the historical city. It is offered to you in his ECRIN formed by its four brick frontages.
While strolling under his arcades, one begins to imagine this crawling place of life, of the graver of the clothier to that of the cobbler become restaurants and coffees with the animated terraces today, incentive to make a pause to refresh itself, the heats days of summer.
To see: The Ingres Museum Old City Hall and Bishop's Palace, The Old Bridge built in the year 1304
Accommodation nearby
Artel Hôtel
- Castelsarrasin
- 05 63 32 86 86
Etape du Château
- Bruniquel
- 05 63 67 25 00
Discover Valence d'Agen
In 1150, the Resident of Agen became English possession after the marriage of Alenor of Aquitaine with Henri, Duc of Normandy.
The Resident of Agen then knew exactions of people of war of all edges: English, French and Toulouse.
Then the treaty of Amiens in 1277 made an English possession definitively of it. Valence was a very small village where were held a market
Accommodation nearby
Artel Hôtel
- Castelsarrasin
- 05 63 32 86 86
Etape du Château
- Bruniquel
- 05 63 67 25 00
Lafrancaise, gate to Quercy
This Verte station of holidays accomodates you all the year within a framework pleasant and animated around its lake and of its base of leisures. Of its past, it preserved its characteristics of country house: ramparts, a perfect squaring of the streets around a commercial place where the markets are still organized Wednesdays and Sundays. In summer as in winter, the valley of the Leisures offers a framework of calms and relaxation. The base is equipped with swimming pools in cascades with watery toboggan, lake for fishing and walks in the pedal boats, tennis court, skate park, adventure playgrounds, picnic, and village of classified lodgings 3 Gîte ears of France.
Accommodation nearby
Artel Hôtel
- Castelsarrasin
- 05 63 32 86 86
Etape du Château
- Bruniquel
- 05 63 67 25 00
Beaumont de Lomagne
Royal country house, Beaumont de Lomagne was born between 1276 and 1279. Located between Montauban and Auch, the CITY is the capital of white garlic. Created at the 13th century, the country houses are new cities which are characterized by a geometrical space division around the central place. Beaumont de Lomagne is exemplary in that, with his immense market of XIVe century of 36,40m on side supported by 38 posts and his streets cutting itself in right angles. The city preserved its strengthened church of the 13th century, numbers of residences with sides of wood and the houses of character.
In Beaumont: the passion of mathematics One of them, the native house of Pierre Fermat shelters a permanent exposure to discover the life and the work of this genius. Magistrate of profession, mathematician by passion, Pierre Fermat created the theory of the numbers and, at the same time as Descartes, differential calculus. With Pascal it provided the foundations of the theory of probability.
In Beaumont: trot king of the track Rich person of its tradition of breeding of the horse, Lomagne has a framework enchanter for the amateurs of races: the hippodrome of Bordevieille, where are run the most prestigious races of trotters (quinté, great price of south-west, large national of trot...).
In Beaumont: feet in water Crossed by Gimone, Beaumont has a lake of 30 hectares arranged for the bathe, the sports watery and the leisures in all kinds. The village of leisures "Lomagnol" makes it possible to remain in lodgings of quality (camp-site 3 stars, lodgings and mobile homes). Beaumontois, kings of the festival Festival of tales, celebrates garlic, celebrates ox, world garlic braiders, mounjetade, living room of the book... as many occasions to find itself in all user-friendliness.
Accommodation nearby
Artel Hôtel
- Castelsarrasin
- 05 63 32 86 86
Etape du Château
- Bruniquel
- 05 63 67 25 00
Auvillar
Auvillar, one of the most beautiful villages of France, in the Tarn and the Garonne. Its circular market, its museum of earthenware. Auvillar is a stage of the way of Saint-Jacob de Compostelle. A remarkable panorama on the valley and the slopes rivets right can be appreciated since a point of view equipped with a table of orientation and located at the site of the old castle, now disappeared and arranged in shaded public place. See the site official: www.auvillar.com
Accommodation nearby
Artel Hôtel
- Castelsarrasin
- 05 63 32 86 86
Etape du Château
- Bruniquel
- 05 63 67 25 00
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