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Millau Downtown car rental - Travel Guide |
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MILLAU, sub prefecture of the Aveyron département and second town after Rodez in the old province of Rouergue, occupies a beautiful site in a bend of the River Tarn at its junction with the Dourbie. It is enclosed on all sides by impressive white cliffs, formed where the rivers have worn away the edges of the causes, especially on the north side, where the spectacular table-top hill of the Puech d'Andan stands sentinel over the town. From medieval until modern times, thanks to its proximity to the sheep pastures of the causes, the town was a major manufacturer of leather goods, especially gloves. Although outclassed by cheaper producers in the mass market and suffering serious unemployment as a result, Millau still leads in top-of-the-range goods. The town recently hit the headlines when one of its residents, 47-year-old José Bové, leader of the farm-workers' union, was put on trial and given a three-month sentence for his involvement in trashing a McDonald's restaurant that was being built in Millau in 1999. He was protesting against globalization and against la mal bouffe - junk food. Around 40,000 supporters turned out at his trial and he is regarded as a hero by many French farmers.
The Town
There are no remarkable sights in Millau; it is simply a very pleasant, lively provincial town that’s clean and well-preserved old streets have a summery, southern charm. It owes its original prosperity to its position on the ford where the Roman road from Languedoc to the north crossed the Tarn, marked today by the truncated remains of a medieval bridge surmounted by a watermill jutting out into the river beside the modern bridge.
Whether you arrive from north or south, you will find yourself sooner or later in place du Mandarous, the main square, where avenue de la République, the road to Rodez, begins. South of here, the old town is built a little way back from the river to avoid the floods and contained within an almost circular ring of shady boulevards. The rue Droite cuts through the centre, linking the three squares: place Emma-Calvé, place des Halles and place Foch. The prettiest by far is place Foch, with its cafés, shaded by two big plane trees and bordered by houses supported on stone pillars; some are as old as the twelfth century. In one corner, the church of Notre-Dame is worth a look for its octagonal Toulouse-style belfry, originally Romanesque. In the other, there's the very interesting Musée de Millau (April-Sept daily 10am-noon & 2-6pm; rest of year closed Sun; 26.50F/?3.97), housed in a stately eighteenth-century mansion. Its collections revolve around the bizarre combination of archeology and gloves, and include the magnificent red pottery of the Graufesenque works, as well as a complete 180-million-year-old plesiosaurus. Millau's other two squares have been the subject of some rather questionable attempts at reconciling old stones and Richard Rogers-inspired contemporary urban design. Off one of these squares, place Emma-Calvé, the clock tower (June & Sept Mon-Sat 10-11.30am & 3-5.30pm; July & Aug daily 10am-noon & 3.30-6pm; 15F/?2.29) is worth a climb for the great all-round view. Take a look also in the streets off the square - rue du Voultre, rue de la Peyrollerie and their tributaries - for a sense of the old working-class and bourgeois districts.
Clear evidence of the town's importance in Roman times is to be seen in the Graufesenque pottery works, just upstream on the south bank (daily 9am-noon & 2-6.30pm; 25F/?3.81), whose renowned red terracotta ware (terra sigillata) was distributed throughout the Roman world. It was a huge production line in its day, involving four hundred potters and a hundred kilns; today, there is an archeology museum with a permanent exhibition of the bowls, vases and cups that were produced. |
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