Historic site
Albi
312 locals recommend
Location
Albi, Occitanie
Tips from locals
Capital of the Tarn, magnificent Romanesque St Cecile cathedral, Bishop’s palace for works of Toulouse-Lautrec, plenty of music, entertainment, nightlife - part of pastel (woad) circuit or ‘pays de cocagne’ by which merchant fortunes were made in the 15th and 16th centuries ( later by tannery owners) and home of the Albigensian crusades against Cathar ‘heretics’ in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Capital of the Tarn, magnificent Romanesque St Cecile cathedral, Bishop’s palace for works of Toulouse-Lautrec, plenty of music, entertainment, nightlife - part of pastel (woad) circuit or ‘pays de cocagne’ by which merchant fortunes were made in the 15th and 16th centuries ( later by tannery owner…
Albi has a magnificent cathedral, the Lautrec museum and wonderful architecture, food and atmosphere.