Tourist attractions Sète

The old harbour was created by order of Colbert and designed by Pierre-Paul Riquet . At present, its passenger and merchant ferry days are long gone; the harbour is now the exclusive domain of local fishermen and expensive yachts. The latter have ta..

Nowhere is more melancholy than this cemetery, lit by the sparkling waters of the nearby Mediterranean. Peace and serenity reign in the final resting place of Paul Valéry (tomb of the Grassi, his mother's family) and Jean Vilar , two of Sète's fav..

From afar this could be an island... This hill which rises to 175m, overlooking the sea, Thau Basin and the town of Sète, forms a superb panoramic viewpoint. In winter, when the mistral wind has cleared the skies, the view is fabulous: at sunset yo..

A huge Roman villa site in use from the 1C BC to the 6C. The museum gives visitors an insight into the inhabitants’ everyday lives thanks to the archaeological evidence unearthed here, including the owner’s luxurious residence, the functions of its..

Built of pink stone, this great Cistercian abbey is verdantly sited among the vineyards of the Languedoc. Founded in the 12C, it was one of the richest abbeys in the South of France before war, absentee abbots and decay brought it low. Today largely ..

C'est ici que tout se passe et tout se joue. Façades colorées, restaurants de fruits de mer et de poissons, étals où l'on achète une tielle que l'on déugustera en marchant, immeubles bourgeois vaguement décatis des armateurs de naguère, chalutiers et..

Older inhabitants of Sète, who are fond of a joke or two, are already calling it the 'MIAM'. In a warehouse revamped by Patrick Bouchain , a museum has been created by the painter Hervé Di Rosas , a native of Sète, celebrating the glory of present-d..

Overlooking the sea from the top of Mont Saint-Clair , this museum has many documents relating to the history of Sète and the Sète jousts , paintings (particularly by François Desnoyer) and, of course, a permanent exhibition on the life of the Sète..

To atone for the beheading of Montmorency or for the repose of the deceased duke’s soul, no-one knows which, king Louis XIII dismantled the fort (“La Montmorencette”) which the governor of Languedoc had built in this location to watch over the coas..

Through an original presentation, this establishment evokes the life and work of the author of Gorille (Gorilla): his Sète childhood, his move to Paris, his difficult years and first successes, the works and writers who inspired him, his best known..

Georges Brassens is not buried on the beach (as he aspired to in his famous Supplique ), but beneath a cypress tree, opposite the Espace Georges Brassens in Le Py cemetery.