Albi Cathedral

A quick stop to check out the red brick cathedral at Albi, and to get a crepe (my first in ...

... begun properly, and we would be doing stuff like this for months to come. We then continued into Albi, again a great little town with a magnificent cathedral, now were not that into churches but we do appreciate good architecture and it was such an ...

Huge cathedral with tons of fancy images and ...

... blog. We were utterly spoilt! Albi is a small city near Toulouse and has some really impressive old buildings. Sainte Cécile cathedral is a massive brick cathedral built starting in the 13th century, as was the Palais de la Berbie ...

... brick work in this town is absolutely A+, and the bridges are no exceptions.  But, overriding everything is the  Cathedral.  After the upheaval of the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars, the bishop Bernard de Castanet, in the late ...

... at least some of the time, we decided to go to Albi today.  We plan to visit Albi's two major sites, the St. Cècile Cathedral and the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, so we will be able to get under cover there, if necessary.  ...

... backroads but, as time was marching on, we used the highways for a bit to keep on track. We wanted to reach Albi by lunchtime and we did. The cathedral is most impressive. I'm not sure when it was built but I assume it's been around a fair while and ...

... Albi. Wonderful history connected to the Cathars and the Knights Templar (check this history out on wikipeadia....fascinating). Albi has a fantastic fortified Cathedral....one of the only one of its kind in the whole of France. Very,very impressive. ...

... ! We had an interesting visit to Albi, which is the nearest town of any significance.  Apart from the 12th century cathedral and bishops palace and medieval streets and houses, it has a nautical museum dedicated to Monsieur La Perouse (who was ...

... 2012  Well, not to see Henri specifically, but to see the work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.  I had never heard of Albi, France before, but this is where Henri was born.          Finding the camping ...