Group activities in Occitanie

Cité de l’Espace

A park dedicated to astronomy and space exploration, with a planetarium and a life-size Ariane 5 rocket. Opened in 1997 in Toulouse, the Cité de l’Espace is a science centre covering both astronomy and astronautics, in a 4-hectare park. Life-size…

Gouffre de Padirac

A huge chasm visited by boat along an underground river. Its entrance shaft, about 35 metres in diameter, opens onto the Causse de Gramat in the Lot. At a depth of 103 metres flows a river that has carved and…

Réserve Africaine de Sigean

A 300-hectare park, visited first by car and then on foot, presenting more than 3,800 animals. Founded by Paul de La Panouse and Daniel de Monfreid, the Réserve Africaine de Sigean lies on the Mediterranean coast, between Narbonne and Perpignan,…

Cité de Carcassonne

Fortified medieval city, considered the largest fortress in Europe. Overlooking the Aude valley, the Cité de Carcassonne owes its fame to its double ring of walls, almost 3 kilometres long and punctuated by fifty-two towers. Its origins go back to…

Planet Ocean Montpellier

An aquarium devoted to the seas and oceans of the world, the former Mare Nostrum aquarium is located in the Odysseum leisure area in Montpellier. Opened in 2007, it merged in 2018 with the neighbouring Galilée planetarium: the complex is…

Pont du Gard

The highest known aqueduct bridge of the Roman world, with a site and a discovery museum. Probably built in the first half of the 1st century, the Pont du Gard spans the Gardon at Vers-Pont-du-Gard. It carried the aqueduct, more…

Micropolis – la cité des insectes

A park entirely dedicated to the world of insects. Micropolis, la cité des insectes, is located in Saint-Léons, on the Lévézou plateau, in the Aveyron. It was inspired by the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre, who was born in the village, and…

Grotte de Niaux

A decorated cave with remarkably well-preserved Magdalenian paintings. It opens halfway up the slope of the Vicdessos valley, in Niaux, in the Ariège, and belongs to the network of decorated caves of the Pyrenean-Cantabrian range. It has been listed as…

Rocamadour

A sacred city clinging to the cliff, a pilgrimage sanctuary since the Middle Ages. In the heart of Haut-Quercy, in the north of the Lot department, it rises 150 metres above the deep Alzou valley. This Marian pilgrimage site has…

Arènes de Nîmes

One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheatres in the world. Built from around AD 90, at the end of the 1st century, to entertain the people of the colony of Nemausus, the Arènes de Nîmes became a fortified village during the…

Château de Foix

A comital fortress overlooking the town, the château of Foix is the symbol of the Counts of Foix. A 12th-century fortified castle whose origins seem to go back to the 10th century, it stands on a rocky platform that controlled…

Canal du Midi

A guided cruise on the historic canal which, extended by the Garonne lateral canal, links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. Designed by Pierre-Paul Riquet and regarded by his contemporaries as the greatest construction project of the 17th century, the Canal…

Musée Fabre

One of the richest museums outside Paris, with European painting from the 15th to the 20th century. Montpellier’s main art museum, the Musée Fabre was born of a donation by the painter and collector François-Xavier Fabre, who in 1825 offered…

Musée Toulouse-Lautrec et cathédrale Sainte-Cécile

A museum holding more than a thousand works by Toulouse-Lautrec, next to the brick cathedral of Sainte-Cécile. Born in Albi, the painter is presented in the Palais de la Berbie, a 13th-century fortress and former bishops’ residence, where the museum…

Ramparts of Aigues-Mortes

A fully enclosed fortified medieval city, once the royal port of Saint Louis. Louis IX acquired the site between 1240 and 1248 and set sail from here in 1248 on the Seventh Crusade. The Tour de Constance was built to…