CASTRES
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Monuments and museums
Goya museum, established in 1840 contains the largest collection of Spanish paintings in France. The Museum of Jean Jaurès was opened in 1954 in the house where he was born in 1859 Castres is crossed from north to south by the Agout. This river is dressed in old houses with heavy colorful history is projected over its waters.
The church of Saint Benedict, who was the cathedral of Castres, is now the largest churches in Castres, it dates only from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The town hall occupies the old Bishop's Palace, designed in the seventeenth century by the famous architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart (architect of Versailles) and completed by the Garden of Evêché designed by Le Nôtre (designer of gardens Versailles). Near the palace, the tower of Saint Benedict Romanesque architecture is the only remnant of the old Benedictine abbey. The city has some old mansions of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, the Hotel de Nayrac, dating from the Renaissance. Castres opened in 1840, Goya Museum, containing the largest collection of Spanish paintings in France after the Louvre. Considerably enriched by the legacy of the family of the painter Marcel Briguiboul, you will discover the works of primitive fourteenth - sixteenth century, as Pacheco (master of Velasquez), and masterpieces of the great masters of the century gold Velasquez, Murillo, Ribera, Valdés Leal, Alonso Cano, and three Goya, and multiple series of engravings of the Spanish master. The museum Jaurès was also opened in 1954 in his home in the city center. The theater of the city in a rococo style dates back to 1904. Designed along the lines of the Opera Comique in Paris (by Joseph Galinier student of the architect Charles Garnier), the dome inside is signed Jean-Paul Laurens.
MAZAMET
During its history, she lived 150 years of industry délainage and to a lesser degree than the Mégisserie. It is the industrial revolution Mazamet.Sites and Monuments
The medieval city of Hautpoul: Ruins of the castle and medieval village of Hautpoul: remains speaker and two castles; tombstone engraved.
Menhir of Prats:
Menhir highest Tarn (3.70 m) is the largest in the region. See also Menhirs Tarn.
House of Memories Mazamet:
Former House Fuzier houses the Office of Tourism, refurbished rooms in the style of the 19th century, the permanent exhibition "Memory of Catharism occitan", exhibits on local history and municipal archives.
The Protestant Churches and Temples:
Église Saint-Sauveur eighteenth century (1740)
Notre Dame-nineteenth century (1872)
Church of the Sacred Heart, Twentieth Century Modern Art (1959)
St. Claire Monastery of the Sacred Heart was founded in the nineteenth century (1887)
Church ruins of medieval village of Hautpoul fifteenth century
Chapel Roquerlan nineteenth century (1846)
Chapelle Saint-Pierre des Plots of the nineteenth century (1824)
Temple Saint-Jacques 16th
Temple Neuf
Temple Rouvière
LA MONTAGNE NOIRE - BLACK MONTAIN
It is home to its feet Mazamet City (capital of the Black Mountain) in the Tarn, is a mountainous area located at the south-west of the Massif Central, France. It separates the departments of Tarn, Hérault and Aude. Geography La Montagne Noire is shared between 4 departments, Aude and Tarn are the main while the Haute-Garonne and Hérault are the borders. The massive east-west has two faces: the north is covered with steep dark forests of oak, beech, fir and spruce. The town of Mazamet is situated at the foot of the slope. The south slope is less steep and includes two major countries: Cabardès which extends south to Carcassonne, the Minervois in the East and parts of lauragais in the West. Many parts of the slope can observe beautiful views of the chain Pyrénéenne (Pradelles-Cabardès Saissac, Cuxac-Cabardès). The climate is relatively mild on the whole of the Mediterranean type, but quite windy. However, in the Cabardès and the north, there is more expense. Summer is less hot in the plains through the rainforest and the winter is often fresh with regular snowfall at higher elevations. In the Minervois, the wind is more present (Cers Marino and relay) but also the sun.
Its highest point is Pic de Nore, 1 210 meters. Black Mountain is
included in the Regional Natural Park of Upper Languedoc.
