Places to Explore In Toulouse and the Languedoc

Discover the best places to explore in Toulouse and the Languedoc with curated recommendations from our travel experts.

Albi

Toulouse-Lautrec's native Albi is a busy, beautifully preserved provincial market town. In its heyday Albi was a major center for the Cathars, members of a...

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  • 10 Things To Do

Béziers

Béziers—centerpiece of the Canal du Midi and the Languedoc's capital du vin (crowds flock in for tastings during the October wine harvest festival)—owes its reputation...

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  • 1 Hotels
  • 5 Things To Do

Carcassonne

Poised atop a hill overlooking lush green countryside and the Aude River, Carcassonne’s fortified upper town, known as La Cité, looks lifted from the pages...

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  • 4 Hotels
  • 4 Things To Do

Céret

The "Barbizon of Cubism," Céret achieved immortality when leading artists found the small Catalan town irresistible at the beginning of the 20th century. Here in...

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  • 2 Things To Do

Collioure

The fishing village where famed painters Henri Matisse, André Derain, and the Fauvists committed chromatic mayhem in the early 20th century, Collioure is still the...

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  • 4 Things To Do

Cordes-sur-Ciel

A must-stop for many travelers, the picture-book hilltop town of Cordes-sur-Ciel appears to hover in midair when mists steal up from the Cérou Valley below...

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  • 3 Hotels
  • 3 Things To Do

Montpellier

The vibrant capital of the Languedoc-Roussillon region, Montpellier (pronounced "monh-pell-yay") has been a center of commerce and learning since the Middle Ages, when it was...

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  • 4 Hotels
  • 9 Things To Do

Narbonne

In Roman times, bustling, industrial Narbonne was the second-largest town in Gaul (after Lyon) and an important port, though today little remains of its Roman...

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  • 3 Hotels
  • 4 Things To Do

Perpignan

Salvador Dalí once called Perpignan's train station "the center of the world." That may not be true, but the city certainly is the capital hub...

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  • 3 Hotels
  • 9 Things To Do

Prades

It may be easy to bypass Prades en route to the region's high peaks, but to do so would mean missing out on this authentic...

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  • 4 Hotels
  • 2 Things To Do

Salses

Salses has a history of sieges. History relates that Hannibal stormed through the town with his elephants on his way to the Alps in 218...

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Toulouse

Ebullient Toulouse is the capital of the Midi-Pyrénées and the fourth-largest city in France. Just 100 km (60 miles) from the border with Spain, Toulouse...

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  • 6 Hotels
  • 39 Things To Do

Vernet-les-Bains

Many notables—including English writer Rudyard Kipling—have come to take the cure at this long-established spa town, which is dwarfed by imposing Mont Canigou...

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  • 0 Hotels
  • 1 Things To Do

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