Things to do in Albi
Around Albi, Notrebellefrance lists 10 tourist sites within 18 km, including 4 museums and 2 villages. Not to be missed: Albi, La Cathédrale Sainte Cécile d'Albi and Musée Toulouse-Lautrec.
Albi
Omnipresent, Albi's red brick sets the tone. Delicate pink in the morning, powerful orange under the blazing summer sun or madder red in the evening.
La Cathédrale Sainte Cécile d'Albi
Albi cathedral is a masterpiece of southern Gothic. It was begun in 1282 by the bishop and inquisitor Bernard de Castanet, who intended to set a vast preaching space against the persistence of the Cathar heresy.
Musée Toulouse-Lautrec
Parc Rochegude
Centre d'art Le LAIT
Musée de la Mine
Musée du Verre, Carmaux
Exoticamis
Château de Mauriac
Monestiés
It was once the chief town of the barony of the archbishops of Albi who enriched the Saint-Jacques chapel (11th and 16th centuries) with fine eighteenth-century statues, a magnificent fifteenth-century pietà and an exceptional "Entombment" made of eleven polychrome limestone figures…