Browsing the downtown with a new look, thanks to "the Festival of Live Architecture "

This festival is an opportunity to discover the interior courtyards of certain historical mansions in the city center while following an architectural theme trail.

The city of Montpellier has more than seventy private mansions in the city center.
The aim of the" Festival of Live Architectures" is not only to open mansions (often private) during these event in the donwtown but also to make discover to the visitors the work of the younger generation of architects, landscape architects, urban planners, designers ...

The Festival offers an unusual journey of exploration architecture where each site reveals an intimate relationship between contemporary architecture and heritage.

The theme in 2012 is "Surprise".