Lautrec (; oc, Lautrèc) is a
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Tarn department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in southern
France
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.
Demography
Remarkable sites
Lautrec is listed among
"The Most Beautiful Villages of France" as well as a "Remarkable Site for Taste" thanks to its renowned
pink garlic.
Its remarkable sites include:
* the village itself, with its 14th century market square
* the Saint Remy collegiate church and its sumptuous marble retable
* the 17th century windmill, one of the few still working today in the South of France
* a clog workshop, recreated after the one that existed there until the early 1960s
* the Caussade Gate (13th century)
* the Salette
calvary
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(altitude 328 m)
* the
Roman road
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See also
* Famous painter
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the ...
’s family had roots in this village
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Communes of the Tarn department
The following is a list of the 314 communes of the Tarn department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):[Tourism in Tarn
The Tarn department is situated in the southwest of France.
Statistics
In 2009, there were :
* Nightly rentals : 8.6 million
* Beds available : 23,100
* Business hotels represented 305,000 tourists for a total of 470,200 nights
* Campsites repres ...]
References
Communes of Tarn (department)
Plus Beaux Villages de France
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