Attractions and Places To See around Baillargues - Top 20

Narrow streets, colorful facades, charming squares – Montpellier's old town invites you to stroll. Gothic churches and elegant townhouses tell tales of bygone splendor. Small boutiques, cafés, and lively markets pulsate among the winding streets. A blend of history, life, and architecture that makes every step worthwhile. A truly captivating city!

Beautiful view!

By the way, it is the second opera house after the first one burned down.

Everyone knows the Pont du Gard, but the Castries aqueduct, much less well-known, is definitely worth the detour (to say the least). A very beautiful hike (possibly parking nearby) done in bright sunshine in the early afternoon, which allowed us to be in a solitary and dry landscape, but where the impressive arches of the aqueduct unfold majestically. An appreciable tranquility in the middle of the past. Superb photos are possible, and the loop allows you to see the covered conduit bringing the water. Sometimes at ground level and sometimes on the arches (there it is no longer covered), it is obviously no longer supplied. The interest is to stroll afterwards (or before) in the village in order to see the "urban" part of the aqueduct.

The Castries Aqueduct winds through the bush landscape and offers beautiful walks in the hinterland.

The Montpellier Opera is one of the leading opera houses in France, where, in addition to operas, classical concerts by world-famous composers are performed.

In the Middle Ages, at the beginning of the second half of the 14th century, the nuns of the Order of Saint Catherine built a convent1. After the religious wars that heralded the Reformation and during the episcopate of Bishop Pierre Fenouillet, a desire for religious reconquest by Catholics was realized in the city of Montpellier2. In 1641, Pierre Fenouillet obtained from his counterpart Fulcrand de Barrès the order to bring six nuns from the Order of Sainte-Ursule de Pézenas. They devoted themselves to the education of poor girls and were settled in part of the convent rebuilt in 1657, which took the name of the Ursuline Convent3. The building was then built by the architect Jean Bonnassier4. From 1697 to 1738, during the episcopate of the Jansenist bishop Joachim de Colbert, the Ursulines were supported to secure their vocation as teachers, open new classes and welcome many residents3. By 1748, however, his successor, Bishop Berger de Charancy, hostile to Jansenism, had the residents withdrawn by entrusting them to the neighboring Visitandine monastery as well as to the Vignogoul monastery3,5. Although the monastery was initially used for religious purposes, it was gradually reused for various warlike reasons. It then functioned as a prison (during the Revolution), then as a barracks for a few years, then again as a prison and then as a women's prison from 18256 to 1934, then as a military prison (in particular during the occupation, the Gestapo occupied the Ursuline convent as a center for interrogation and detention of the resistance fighters) and again as a barracks (Grossetti barracks: Air Force information office) in the post-war period until 1986. The purchase of the Ursuline convent by the municipality takes place in several stages, following the various administrative procedures: as early as 1980, the City of Montpellier announces that it will acquire the site, the Army does not move until 1986 and, following an agreement, the City immediately occupies the premises7, even if the final acquisition deed is not completed until two years later.

It's simply magnificent to stand here. Overwhelming buildings.