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| Tarn-et-Garonne department | |
| Capital | Montauban |
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| Residents | 259.124 (2018) |
| surface | 3,718 km² |
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The french Department Tarn-et-Garonne lies in the region Midi-Pyrénées. It borders the départements in a clockwise direction starting in the north Lot, Aveyron, Camouflage in the East, Haute-Garonne in the south and Gers and Lot-et-Garonne in the West.
Regions
Map of the department
places
Place Nationale in Montauban
Cloister of the Monastery of Moissac
- Montauban is the prefecture (administrative seat) of the department; one of the oldest bastides ("planting towns") in southern France with an old bridge over the Tarn (14th century); central square designed in the 17th century; classicist-baroque cathedral, bishop's palace (now a museum dedicated to the painter J.A.D. Ingres)
- Brassac
- Castelsarrasin
- Moissac; important station on the French Way of St. James (Via Podiensis), former Benedictine abbey with a beautiful Romanesque cloister and portal
Other goals
The department is traversed by the two rivers Tarn and Garonne.
background
language
getting there
mobility
Tourist Attractions
- Canal bridge at Moissac. Two waterways cross here - the Garonne Lateral Canal is led over the Tarn River on a 350-meter-long bridge from the 19th century.
