Museums

THE DINOSAUR MUSEUM

Avenue de la gare
11260 ESPERAZA
Tél : 33 (0)4 68 74 02 08
Fax : 33 (0)4 68 74 05 75

MUSEE DES DINOSAURES Dinosauria is the first dinosaur museum in Europe. It has 3,000 sq m of exhibition space where you'll find a magnificent collection of dinosaurs, fossils of reptiles, mammals, invertebrates and plants from this region and throughout the world. From the Cretaceous Period glasshouse, which shows what plants were like 70 million years ago, you can get a direct view of researchers working in the laboratory. During school holidays children aged 6-12 can be shown excavation techniques and learn how to be real palaeontologists. The museum is open to the public in July and August. The excavation site is the richest deposit of fossils in France, where ?Eva' was discovered.

ESTATE OF THE ABBÉ SAUNIERE

Rue de l'église
11190 RENNES-LE-CHATEAU
Tél : 33 (0)4 68 31 38 85
Fax : 33 (0)4 68 74 72 68

DOMAINE DE L'ABBE SAUNIERE Experience an amazing place to visit ? Rennes-le-Château offers a variety of sites to visit, where traces of François Bérenger Saunière, also known as the Abbé Saunière, can still be found: the Church of Saint Mary Magdalen (10th century), its gardens, the presbytery of the Abbé Saunière (where he lived from 1885 to 1917) which has been converted into a cultural and historical area, and the Abbé Saunière's Estate, the Magdala tower, the Béthanie Villa and the orangery.
DOMAINE DE L'ABBE SAUNIERE Experience an amazing place to visit ? Rennes-le-Château offers a variety of sites to visit, where traces of François Bérenger Saunière, also known as the Abbé Saunière, can still be found: the Church of Saint Mary Magdalen (10th century), its gardens, the presbytery of the Abbé Saunière (where he lived from 1885 to 1917) which has been converted into a cultural and historical area, and the Abbé Saunière's Estate, the Magdala tower, the Béthanie Villa and the orangery.