Lautrec
Member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France
Pink garlic is the pride of Lautrec, grown across the surrounding farmland and celebrated with a festival on the first Friday of August. The town was the seat of a viscounty and the cradle of the Toulouse-Lautrec family, and its heart is a triangular market square edged with timber-framed houses. Above it, the Salette windmill of 1688, restored to working order, still turns on a few days a year.
Highlights
- Ail rose de Lautrec, the Label Rouge pink garlic, and its August festival
- Collégiale Saint-Rémy, with trompe-l'œil paintings and a marble high altar
- The Salette windmill, built in 1688 and working again since restoration
- Porte de la Caussade, last of the town's eight fortified gates
- Former Benedictine convent with a stone model of the 13th-century village
Text adapted from Wikipedia (Lautrec (Tarn), Lautrec), Wikivoyage (Lautrec (FR), Lautrec (EN)). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Population: 1,673
Things to see
Events through the year
- Fête générale de LautrecFunfair, concert, belote and pétanque contests
- Fête des Moulins et Vide GrenierWindmill open day and village junk sale
- Fête de l'Artisanat et du SabotOld crafts demonstrations, producers' market, pink garlic soup tasting
- FestivaoutFree open-air concerts; includes Fête Pains et Saveurs with flour milling
- Fête de l'ail rosePink garlic tastings, contests, confraternity parade and evening dance
- Les Pinceaux de CocagnePainting competition in the village streets
- Comme ça nous chante
Dates follow the traditional patterns in our sources: check locally before you travel.
Adapted from Wikivoyage (Lautrec (FR), Lautrec (EN)). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Translated and adapted from open data: Panorama des festivals, Ministère de la Culture, updated 2025-08-27 (Licence Ouverte 2.0).
Local food & wine
Adapted from Wikivoyage (Lautrec). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where to sleep
7 places to stay within 3 km
- B&Bs and guest houses 6
- Campsites 1
Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
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