Conciergerie

Delicious, impertinent, audacious. The beautiful city of Languedoc continues its life as an overachiever and welcomes excellence in medicine, research, architecture and fine arts. Gifted people have left their mark on the city, Ricardo Bofill with Antigone; in the new district where the heart of the city now beats, all the talented urban planners rub shoulders and erect buildings that rival each other in originality and avant-gardism. Philippe Starck, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, Jacques Ferrier rival each other in their audacity, just a stone’s throw away from the 14th century cathedral and the Faculty of Medicine.

Let yourself be guided, sniff the air of time between small squares with hackberry trees, shady streets and meet at random buildings of atlantes and stone caryatids, which carry at the end of their arms balconies. The Richer de Belleval hotel offers superb and impassive atlantes, fauns who have lost their arms but not their flowery beards, with plaited hair floating in the wind, nor their ears which have heard all the conversations over the centuries,

Get lost in the old town, push on to the Opera and the Fabre museum. Music, dance and painting are permanent guests in the city, where a streetcar designed by Grouste and Bonetti, and Christian Lacroix winds its way.