Jardins des Paradis


Feel stress melt away as you idle by frog-filled ponds and under shady palm trees in these sculpted flower gardens.


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1. Église St-Jean

10.55 MILES

Two hundred metres below the Forteresse Royale de Najac is the austere 13th-century Église St-Jean, constructed and financed by local villagers on the…

2. Forteresse Royale de Najac

10.63 MILES

High on a hilltop 150m above a hairpin bend in the River Aveyron, Najac’s fortress looks as if it's fallen from the pages of a fairy tale: slender towers…

3. Maison des Vins

11.93 MILES

This well-organised winegrowers' cooperative is a great place to get acquainted with Gaillac wines. It stocks about 100 local vintages. Friendly,…

4. Musée de Lapérouse

13.26 MILES

This intriguing museum explores the adventures of Albi-born explorer Jean-François de Galaup (aka the Comte de Lapérouse), who made several pioneering…

5. Pont Vieux

13.3 MILES

This 19th-century bridge across the River Tarn provides a fine perspective over Albi's pink-bricked cathedral.

6. Musée Toulouse-Lautrec

13.35 MILES

Lodged inside the Palais de la Berbie (built in the early Middle Ages for the town's archbishop), this wonderful museum offers an overview of Albi's most…

7. Cathédrale Ste-Cécile

13.37 MILES

Resembling a castle more than a cathedral, this formidable edifice in orange brick rises above Vieil Albi like an apparition. Its defensive walls hark…

8. Maison du Vieil Alby

13.46 MILES

Lodged in a timber-framed medieval building, this museum houses a small exhibition on the city's history and its connections with Toulouse-Lautrec.