Musée Paul-Dupuy

This great ramshackle edifice is partly Gothic but mostly Dog's Breakfast – the medieval builders made a hash of things on a sublime scale. They half-built one church, abandoned it, started building another, abandoned that, while other sections were added and added instead of starting over with a clear site. The Archbishop of Toulouse has to come to work in this Frankencathedral.

You'll think you're walking into a monastery: the gardens were part of an old Carmelite friary before expanding south.

Asian arts and Egyptian antiquities museum in an exotic garden built in 1893. It remains closed.

Stark depictions of wartime events.

Fine arts museum set in a former Augustinian monastery surrounding two delightful cloisters.

Great mansion house built in the 16th century in Renaissance style for a rich merchant. It now houses the personal art collection of Georges Bemberg (1915–2011).