Montpellier Now ! Office de Tourisme

The city of Montpellier has kept the reminders of its past intact and proudly protects the symbols of every era.

Meander along the typical medieval streets of the south, winding your way from the central Place de la Comédie to the peaceful Place de la Canourgue.

• The Place de la Comédie, with its XVIIIth century opera house
• Cathédrale Saint-Pierre and the Tour des Pins
• Faculty of Medicine, Museum of Anatomy and botanical garden 
• Medieval mikve (XIIIth century Jewish ritual bath)
• Lavish private mansions from the XVIIth, XVIIIth, and XIXth centuries, such as Hôtel de Varennes with its Museum of Old Montpellier, Hôtel des Trésoriers de la Bourse, Hôtel Jacques Cœur, which became the Hôtel des Trésoriers de France in the XVIIth century and now houses the Languedoc Museum, Hôtel Saint-Côme with its XVIIIth century surgical amphitheater, Hôtel Haguenot and Hôtel de Guidais, and Hôtel Sabatier d'Espeyran, which has recently been renovated to accommodate the Fabre Museum's new Decorative Arts museum.
• Arc de Triomphe, Royal Peyrou plaza and Saint-Clément aqueduct
• Place de la Canourgue, scallop shell corner on Hôtel de Sarret and the unicorn fountain
•  Ursuline convent, Tour de la Babote
• Carré Sainte Anne and local violin-makers
• Charles de Gaulle Esplanade, Fabre Museum and Corum Conference Center-Berlioz Opera House