Albi

Albi (ancient Albiga , fr. and ox. Albi , lat. Civitas Albigensium, Albia ) is the main city ​​of the Tarn department in the south of France (the historical region of Languedoc ) with a population of 51.2 thousand inhabitants. (2008).

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Located on a hill above the Tarn River. Nearby lies the famous So-du-Szabo , or So-du-Tarn, a series of tarn falls falling into the limestone cliffs. The area in which the city is located was formerly called Albigeois and was known for the religious persecution of its inhabitants (see Albiguian Crusade ). In the documents of the IX — XIII centuries. Counts of Albi are mentioned.

The historical part of the city is a World Heritage site . Among the interesting buildings belong dedicated to St. Cecilia is a Gothic cathedral built in 1282-1512, painted with ancient frescoes and having an organ choir ; the church of Saint Salvi, a fortress-like building of the prefecture, is the former palace of the counts of Albigeois, where the archbishops, hospital and theater lived for a long time. An old bridge at 6 and a new one at 5 arcades, 160 m long, lead across Tarn.

Modern Albi is the nodal point of the railways, the seat of the archbishop. It has a lyceum, a library, the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, which presents the world's largest collection of paintings by the artist, and a bronze statue erected in 1843 in Guo near Albi, the famous explorer Laperouse .