Guidebook for Villefranche-d'Albigeois
Sightseeing
Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d'Albi
5 Bd Général SibilleCordes sur Ciel
Viaduc de Millau
An extraordinary engineering feat.
Everything Else
Pretty town, famous for Pastel and pink garlic. Pastel comes from the plant Isatis tinctoria, and is also known as woad.
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Lautrec
Pretty town, famous for Pastel and pink garlic. Pastel comes from the plant Isatis tinctoria, and is also known as woad.
Great walks along the GR36, around the orchards at Miolles or around the village of Marssals. Information on these walks available from the tourist office or buy the guides in the Boulangerie or Tabac.
Alban
Great walks along the GR36, around the orchards at Miolles or around the village of Marssals. Information on these walks available from the tourist office or buy the guides in the Boulangerie or Tabac.
Shopping
Alban
Small Carrefour supermarket
Food Scene
Walk up to the priory and get a great view of the river. There is music at the cafe de Presqu ile in the summer.
The Hotel du Pont has a good restaurant
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Ambialet
Walk up to the priory and get a great view of the river. There is music at the cafe de Presqu ile in the summer.
The Hotel du Pont has a good restaurant
Albi
Many good restaurants in Albi
Villefranche-d'Albigeois
Le Vieux Cabaret
Worth a visit to the cheese caves built into the mountainside. Dating from the middle ages, these caves are ventilated by 'fleurines', small tunnels that are up to a kilometre long within the mountain.
Reservation and warm clothing advised. There are several cheese makers, including Roquefort Societe and Papillon.
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Roquefort-sur-Soulzon
Worth a visit to the cheese caves built into the mountainside. Dating from the middle ages, these caves are ventilated by 'fleurines', small tunnels that are up to a kilometre long within the mountain.
Reservation and warm clothing advised. There are several cheese makers, including Roquefort Societe and Papillon.