Things to do in Montpellier

Seaquarium - Musée de la mer

Giant aquarium and marine mammal area. Mediterranean and tropical fish, shark tunnel and walkway, giant seal and sea-lion tank, many interactive areas, children's trail, Sea Museum.

Montpellier

Jardin des plantes de Montpellier

Created in 1593 under Henry IV, it was meant to let students of the Faculty of Medicine become familiar with medicinal plants.

Musée Fabre

The Musée Fabre is Montpellier's main art museum, opened to the public in 1828 following a donation by Baron François-Xavier Fabre (1766–1837), Officer of the Legion of Honour, painter and collector, made to the city of Montpellier and accepted by the mayor in January 1825, after a…

Château de la Piscine

On the site of the château stood the old Mas de la Peyssine (1435), a hunting estate belonging to Charles de Boucicot, councillor at the Montpellier court of accounts.

Parc zoologique de Montpellier

With its 80 hectares, the Lunaret zoological park in Montpellier is today the largest green space in the city and the second largest zoological park in France!

Planet Ocean Montpellier

Château de Flaugergues

Built at the end of the seventeenth century, Flaugergues is one of those dwellings called "follies" built in the Montpellier countryside. "Houses in the foliage", they are the work of a new aristocracy enriched in the king's service.

Château d'O

This château was built between 1743 and 1750 by the Montpellier architect Charles Gabriel Le Blanc.

Château de la Mogère

Château de la Mosson

Château de l'Engarran

Château des évêques de Montpellier

Château de Bocaud

Château d'Assas

Château de Castries

Built on the site of a Gothic castle of which nothing remains, from the year 1565, this castle nicknamed "the Versailles of Languedoc" is a Renaissance masterpiece.

Château de Montferrand

Pic Saint-Loup

The Pic Saint-Loup is a 658 m limestone fold rising in the garrigue north of Montpellier.

Château d'Aumelas