infotourisme.net : touristic guide in France Infotourisme.net: tourisme en France

Discover Montauban

Sites and museums 

Montauban inherited a wonderful architecture, whose pink brick is omnipresent

Visite the saint-jacques church

Visite the saint-jacques church


  Built during the 13th century thanks to the sumptuary taxation taken of the middle-class rich person, it carries the marks d'une tumultuous history montalbanaise.

 le pont vieux

le pont vieux


  What to see, the old bridge : In 1304, Philippe Le Bel made it built.
  Le Musée du terroir : Small museum of art and popular tradition.

La place nationale

La place nationale


  Its origin goes up with the creation of the city in 1144. An innovative plan of construction is adopted. The streets are cut to right angle, leaving an empty small island: c'est the Place! EIle already constitutes with the Middle Ages the center of the urban life.

Guided tour of the cathédrale

Guided tour of the cathédrale


  It was suposed to celebrate the triumph of the catholic religion in this Protestant city, after the Revocation of l'Edit of Nantes.

Le musée ingres

Le musée ingres


  Episcopal palace of the 17th century, it shelters the famous collections of 2 personns of Montauban, painter D. Ingres and sculptor A. Bourdelle.
  Superb room of the 14th century : Gallo-Roman archaeology earthenware.
  Contemporary Works Collection : O Debré, Zao Wou-Ki...
  5 levels of visit, and the centuries d'art to be discovered.

Le musée d'histoire naturelle

Le musée d'histoire naturelle


  The museum has an important zoological collection, where birds are in a majority.
  The collection of regional paleontology is characterized by an important series of Phosphorites fossils from Quercy.
  Lastly, a small collection of Mineralogy has a fragment of the wonderful meteorite d'Orgueil.

 visite du musée de la résistance et de la déportation

visite du musée de la résistance et de la déportation


  This museum recalls our tragic history during the 2nd world war. this visit is freeof charge.

* not contractual pictures