The nerve centre of Montpellier, and the point where the old town meets the more modern side of the city. The lively square is full of cafés and terraces, and actually in the shape of an egg, which gives it its local nickname L’Oe…

Montpellier is home to the oldest functioning faculty of medicine in the West. And all because of a seventeenth-century feudal lord, Guilhem VIII, who decreed that everybody had the right to study medicine in Montpellier, regardle…

Lovers of architecture have an ulterior motive for visiting Montpellier. Away from the old quarter toward the south-east of the city are three places to marvel at: Antigone, Les Rives du Lez and Port Marianne. Antigone was designe…