Montolieu - The Village of Books & Art
Montolieu is conveniently located 15 minutes from Carcassonne and its international airport and train station and 70 minutes from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport. Narbonne and the Meditteranean coast is a one hour drive away. For more details of the area click Explore.
For Montolieu, it all began in 1989 when Michel Braibant, a keen bookbinder from Carcassonne chose Montolieu to set in motion a visionary project: transmit, teach and share with the general public the arts of this many thousand year old means of communication, and to give new life to a dormant village.
The village is now home to 16 booksellers, 7 book artisans and 16 artists in residence, the Museum of Book Arts and Crafts, Pôle Culturel De La Manufacture and The Cérès Franco Collection Art Cooperative. There are regular expositions, workshops and tours from Spring through to Autumn and weekly Summer concerts. With six restaurants, delightful narrow streets and stone houses – many of historic significance from its industrious past - all sitting between two river gorges, Montolieu attracts over 50,000 visitors per year and even has its own swimming pool during the Summer months.
For Montolieu, it all began in 1989 when Michel Braibant, a keen bookbinder from Carcassonne chose Montolieu to set in motion a visionary project: transmit, teach and share with the general public the arts of this many thousand year old means of communication, and to give new life to a dormant village.
The village is now home to 16 booksellers, 7 book artisans and 16 artists in residence, the Museum of Book Arts and Crafts, Pôle Culturel De La Manufacture and The Cérès Franco Collection Art Cooperative. There are regular expositions, workshops and tours from Spring through to Autumn and weekly Summer concerts. With six restaurants, delightful narrow streets and stone houses – many of historic significance from its industrious past - all sitting between two river gorges, Montolieu attracts over 50,000 visitors per year and even has its own swimming pool during the Summer months.
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