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Audio Guide Albi
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Albi is a city of red brick and outsized ambition, built along the Tarn River in southern France. Its cathedral is so fortress-like that visitors routinely mistake it for a castle, and the medieval episcopal quarter around it earned UNESCO World Heritage status in 2010. The city also happens to be the birthplace of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, whose entire life's work is collected just steps from where he was born.
14+ researched places in the app
Yes. Parroo is a self-guided audio guide for Albi: 14 researched places, from Sainte-Cécile Cathedral of Albi to Toulouse-Lautrec Museum and Pont-Vieux, each with a short summary, a full article, and a roughly three-minute audio story in German, English, and French. Buy once, no subscription, no booking. Start whenever you like.
Audio sample: Sainte-Cécile Cathedral of Albi
Albi
Places researched in this city
A selection of the 14 places we've researched in this city. The full set is in the Parroo app.
- Gothic cathedral
- Medieval palace
- Romanesque collegiate church
- Medieval bridge
- Renaissance mansion
- Modern theatre
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Sainte-Cécile Cathedral of Albi
Built to project Catholic authority after the Albigensian Crusade, this fortress-like cathedral holds the largest painted interior surface of any cathedral in Europe, covering 18,500 square metres of walls and vaults. Construction began on 15 August 1282 and took nearly two centuries to complete.
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Toulouse-Lautrec Museum
The world's largest public collection of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's work sits inside a former bishops' palace whose brick walls reach up to seven metres thick. The Palais de la Berbie was built as a fortress between 1228 and 1308, and the museum has occupied it since 1922.
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Pont-Vieux
Decided upon by a joint assembly of canons, clerics, and the local viscount between 1035 and 1042, this 151-metre bridge was fortified during the Hundred Years' War with a central gate-tower and drawbridges at each end. It is one of the oldest bridges still standing in France.
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Collegiate Church of Saint-Salvi and its Cloister
This church stands on a site believed to hold the tomb of Saint Salvius, an early bishop of Albi who died between 574 and 584, and a Carolingian crypt beneath it still preserves 10th-century painted decorations. The cloister dates to 1270 and mixes Romanesque and Gothic stonework side by side.
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Grand Théâtre des Cordeliers
Architect Dominique Perrault built this 900-seat theatre on the exact plot where Albi's prison stood until it was demolished in 1969, wrapping the 10,200-square-metre complex in a copper-coloured metal mesh that glows at night. It opened in 2014.
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Hôtel du Bosc (birthplace of Toulouse-Lautrec)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born here on 24 November 1864, inside a private mansion built directly into Albi's 12th-century city ramparts, two of whose medieval towers are still embedded in the structure. The address is now the street named after him.
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Hôtel Reynès
Pastel merchant Roger Reynès built this Renaissance mansion between 1520 and 1530 at the peak of the woad-dye trade, incorporating a tower from a demolished medieval hospital to signal his family's rising status. When the Reynès family was ennobled in 1583, they raised the tower even higher to make the point clearer.
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14 researched places, from the Sainte-Cécile Cathedral and the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum to lesser-known spots like the Hôtel du Bosc, Toulouse-Lautrec's actual birthplace. Each one has a short summary, a full article, and a ~3-minute audio story.
Yes. Every place has a ~3-minute audio story, written from the perspective of a guide standing next to you and produced with premium narration, not the article read aloud.
German, English, and French. Pick whichever you'd rather read or listen in.
No booking, no signup. It's a self-guided walk you start whenever you like. You do need a connection for now to stream the audio and load articles; offline support is something we're still building.
A one-time €4.99 for the whole city, no subscription and no recurring cost. You buy Albi once and keep access to all 14 places with text and audio.
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Updated: 2026-09-25