Albi

Albi, with 46 thousand residents,¹ is located along the Tarn River² in the Tarn Department of the Midi-Pyrénées Region of France. UNESCO honors the 'episcopal city' as a World Heritage Site, drawing attention to the Sainte-Cécile fortified cathedral, the Palais (palace) de la Berbie,³ the old bridge and the quarters near these sights.⁴ The tallest structure is probably a chimney of a coal plant.⁵

External references

Overview of Albi and its cathedral, Tarn Department, Midi-Pyrénées Region, France

Footnotes

1. Figure for 2010 in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communes_in_France_with_over_20,000_inhabitants, accessed 2/9/2015.
2. The Tarn flows into the Garonne, whose estuarine mouth, shared by the Dordogne, is the Gironde.
3. Once an episcopal palace, now a museum for the art of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albi, accessed 7/3/2015.
5. The Cheminée de Centrale Thermique Pélissier rises 410 feet--emporis.com, accessed 7/3/2015.