«In this mutilated open-air church, owned by birds, in this serene charm of beautiful flowers in the ancient monastery courtyard, everything here seems to be immersed in meditation.” Frédérique Barbut The Cistercian abbey of Villelongue is located 20 km from…

Old Wings is an aviation museum near Blagnac airport in Haute-Garonne department in Toulouse (Occitania, France). In the museum you can see one of the largest private collections of planes, helicopters and gliders, in total about 50 machines. The collection…

The Canal du Midi (Occitan: Canal del Miègjorn) is a 240 km long canal in Southern France (Occitania). Originally named the Canal royal en Languedoc (Royal Canal in Languedoc) and renamed by French revolutionaries to Canal du Midi in 1789, the canal is considered…

The Ganguise lake (or Estrade reservoir) is a 500-hectare dam lake located in the Aude department near Toulouse and Avignonet-Lauragais on the Ganguise river (France). The Ganguise is a river in southern France, in the departments of Aude and Haute-Garonne…

The Cité de l’espace (Space City) is a scientific discovery centre in France focused on spaceflight. It was opened in June 1997 and is located on the eastern outskirts of Toulouse in Haute-Garonne department (Occitania, France). One can visit full-scale models…

Aeroscopia is an aerospace museum, located in Haute-Garonne department at the north-western edge of Toulouse (Occitania, France), in the commune of Blagnac. It was opened on 14 January 2015. The exhibition hall is 100 m long, 72 m wide and 23 m high, for…

The Monastery of Notre-Dame-de-Prouille (Fr. Monastère de Prouilhe), is the “cradle of the Dominicans”, where the first Dominican house, a monastery of nuns, was founded in late 1206 or early 1207. It is located in the Pyrenees at the point where the road…

Lake Montbel (Fr. Lac de Montbel) is an artificial lake that was filled with water in 1985, following the construction of the Montbel dam. It is located straddling the departments of Ariège and Aude in the French Pyrenees (Occitania, France). Lake Montbel…

Lombrives cave is located in Ornolac-Ussat-les-Bains in Tarascon-sur-Ariège, at the eastern edge of the Pyrenees Ariégeoises Natural Regional Park, Ariège department in Occitania, southwestern France (N20 road from Andorra to Foix, about 1 hour by car from…

The Odeillo solar furnace (Heliodyssee-Grand Four Solaire of Odeillo) is the world’s largest solar furnace. It is situated in Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales in Occitania, in the south of France (Pyrenees mountains). It is…

The Abbey of Caunes-Minervois (fr. Abbaye Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul de Caunes-Minervois) crosses time, from its famous Romanesque bedside to the Maurist cloister. You can also visit the archaeological remains of the medieval cloister and the Carolingian church…

Minerve (fr. Minerve, Occitan: Menèrba) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitania region in southern France. Nestled between two canyons covered in Mediterranean garrigue, Minerve is an imposing Cathar medieval city, listed among the most beautiful…

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert Abbey or Gellone Abbey (fr. L’abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert ou abbaye Saint-Sauveur de Gellone) is a Benedictine abbey in Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Hérault department, Occitania, France, 40 km from Montpellier. It was founded in…

Saint-Michel de Grandmont Priory (fr. Prieuré Saint-Michel de Grandmont) is a former monastery of Grandmontine in the commune of Saint-Privat, in Hérault, Occitania, France. The priory is located in a wild area in heart of an oak forest, about 10 km from…

Lake Salagou (fr. Lac du Salagou) is a reservoir for the Salagou dam. It is located in the center of the Hérault department (Occitania, France, foothills of the Massif Central), on the Salagou river, a tributary of the Lergue river which flows into the Hérault.…

International toy museum (fr. Musée international du jouet) in Hérault department, Pézenas (Occitania, France). The museum is located in Pézenas town centre, ten metres from the Espace Molière. One can find more than the 7 500 art objects contained in this…

Pézenas (fr. Pézenas) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitania region in southern France. Pézenas is a town steeped in history as evidenced by its historic centre, a setting for late Middle Ages residences and numerous mansions from the seventeenth…

The largest Museum-Park in Europe devoted to dinosaurs (fr. Mèze Musée des Dinosaures) in the middle of an outstanding paleontological site, near Montpellier in the Hérault department in the Occitania region in southern France. An extraordinary voyage in…