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Places to visit in Montpellier

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Musée Fabre

Enter one of Europe's most important art museums and discover a world-class collection spanning centuries of European artistic achievement. The Musée Fabre houses over 700 paintings, sculptures, and drawings across 9,200…

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Jardins des Plantes

Stroll through France's oldest botanical garden, a living testament to over 430 years of horticultural history and scientific discovery. Created in 1593 by Pierre Richer de Belleval, a doctor-professor commissioned by Ki…

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La Promenade du Peyrou

Experience an 18th-century landscape of power and ambition at La Promenade du Peyrou, a monumental royal terrace that commands the city with architectural grandeur. Laid out in 1689 and completed in 1774, this Place Roya…

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Place de la Comédie

Place de la Comédie is Montpellier's living room, an enormous paved oval that Montpellier locals simply call l'Oeuf, the egg, after the shape once marked out on it. The Three Graces fountain stands in the middle and the …

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The Pavillon Populaire

The Pavillon Populaire is a photography exhibition space in a 19th-century pavilion on the Esplanade Charles-de-Gaulle, the tree-lined promenade in the heart of Montpellier. It is run by the city and shows photography, f…

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Place Jean Jaurès

Place Jean Jaurès is one of the liveliest squares in Montpellier's old town, a run of cafe terraces that fills up in the evening. Beneath it lie the excavated remains of a Romanesque church, visible through the crypt ent…

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