Pézenas

Overview

The Michelin brochure 'Les Plus Beaux Détours de France' calls Pézenas a "Not-to- miss" town. It is alive all year around; not only a summer city.

The town is situated on the River Peyne and has a population of about 7,000. As each summer begins - Pézenas paints her face with special care and in courtly robes assumes her role as the Doyenne of Culture - in this place of Molière.

For 36 seasons, the Mirondela de l'Arte has descended on the city with its music, its energy, its excitement - to remain En Résidence in Pézenas for the summer - offering you musical spectacles, theatre and endless street animation. When you walk over into the old-city, you cannot help but feel the pulse of life from a bygone time.

Plus - all the surrounding domaines and villages point to Pézenas as their focal point. Everyone's favourite - this is where it's at. Pézenas offers you a fabulous all-day Saturday Street-Market of sights, smells and pleasing taste-testing. Plus temptations enough to fill that other suitcase.

Pézenas is cited by the Official Preservation Registry as a Ville de Métier d'Art for its widely varied family of artisans - createurs and antique restoration craftsmen. A known centre of the Antique Trade and for its Bric-a-brac . The Cultural Walking Tours start at Place Gambetta - then through the XVI-XVII century city streets of old Pézenas. Old-fashioned cafes in a city virtually untouched by the drive of modern development. And all because the French Rail Road made...more

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