With twenty centuries of history, and the changing of nowadays time Albi tries to find out new ideas to make the town more attractive, this through the diversification of enterprises, the tertiary sector and the promotion of the tourism...

It became recently an university town with the creation of a "Ecole des Mines" and the establishment of three faculties connected with the university of Toulouse

The town of Albi is very concerned in emphasizing and the protection of its historical monuments and its artistic treasures : a cathedral which is unlike anything else in the world, a museum Toulouse-Lautrec in which there is the most important collector's items of this artist ,a safeguarded area in the historic centre of the town in which renovations of quality have reanimated the ancient areas...

It is really a town where it's nice to live or to stay some days in tourist. There are many advantages so that Albi is a town which is worth to be visited. Furthermore, the tourist is there in the middle of exceptional beauty spots : Cordes and the road of country houses, Castres with the museum Goya , the Sidobre and the Black mountain, Carcassonne and the town of Toulouse, so that Millau and the famous Gorges of Tarn...

Text : Henri Bru, professor of history - plaque "Albi and Albigeois" CDT Tarn