Combefa (; oc, Combafan) is a

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in the Tarn department in southern

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. It has an old ruined castle, the "Château de Combefa", former summer residence of the bishops of Albi. The chapel of the castle contained a 15th-century sculpture group representing the

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. The sculpture group was moved to the hospital of Monestiés in 1774.

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