The private residence of the Comte de Manse, the King's treasurer, was designed by Italian artists. It has a fine interior façade with a twin colonnade encompassing the staircase known as the “degré de Manse”. Unfortunately, the door is often closed...

This tiny medieval street spanned by a Gothic arch leads down to rue de l'Ancien-Courrier .

In the museum are engravings, portraits of eminent persons, old plate and religious objects including a Virgin reliquary from Notre Dame des Tables, penitents' sticks and documents from the time of the Revolution.

Life in Languedoc in the 19C evoked by means of various objects, furniture and decors.

A continuation of place de la Comédie, this promenade with its majestic plane trees is lined with café terraces and bandstands often in use by musicians. The view extends as far as the Corum and, to the east, to the Triangle and the Polygone co..

The elegant Louis XVI façade of this residence is decorated with garlands of flowers.

A Louis XIII doorway leads into this 17C house which has a porch ceiling decorated with plasterwork.

This street is lined with 17C private residences: the hôtel de Roquemaure (n°1), the hôtel d'Avèze (n°3), the hôtel de Beaulac (n°6) and, at n°8, the hôtel Deydé with its flattened arch, also termed a “davilerte” (named after the architect d'..

The arch of the doorway is decorated with garlands (the keystone is ornamented with the figure of a lady) and the pediment has a vase of flowers framed by cherubs.

Built in the 19C, the church is crowned by a tall bell-tower and is now used for temporary exhibitions. The vestiges of the small 17C building opposite the porch were brought here and rebuilt.

The narrow streets of this quarter, the oldest in Montpellier, have now been colonised by art galleries and luxury shops.

This was once the home of Auguste Comte , born in Montpellier and the founder of Positivism; it was later occupied by the Sète poet, Paul Valéry .

Some of the shops in this old tradesmen’s street still retain their 14C-15C vaulting.

This vast, concrete and red Finnish granite complex, designed by Claude Vasconi , has a modular structure and is ideal as a venue for conferences, exhibitions and shows. The Berlioz opera house is the jewel of the complex.

The square was the centre of Montpellier in the 17C and a number of old houses remain standing around the garden with its unicorn fountain: the hôtel Richer de Belleval , its courtyard decorated with balusters and balustrades, the hôtel de Cambacér..

Erected in the late 17C, the arch is decorated with bas-reliefs commemorating the victories of Louis XIV and the major events of his reign, such as the linking of the two seas by the Canal du Midi and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The presen..

Collections of normal and pathological anatomy, anatomical models and other cheerful objects! Unusual…

The faculty of medicine occupies a former Benedictine monastery established by Pope Urban V in the 14C. The machicolated façade was remodelled by Giral in the 18C. The entrance is watched over by the bronze statues of two Montpellier doctors, Barthez..

The massive façade of this fortified cathedral is a continuation of that of the Faculty of Medicine. It is the only church in the city to have been spared during the Wars of Religion and, despite its Gothic style, is reminiscent of the Romanesque chu..

Founded in 1593, the garden has temperate and tropical greenhouses and contains a variety of Mediterranean trees (nettle trees, green oaks etc.). In the southern part, 3 000 species of plants grow in the botanical garden which illustrates the “system..