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This not-to-be-missed biennial event celebrates the diversity and richness of the dance arts, offering a rich programme that boldly blends tradition and modernity. A unique celebration of the arts of movement. This high point in the city’s calendar is sure to appeal to all enthusiasts, from neophytes to clear-eyed amateurs.

Every two years, interspersed with the Mars en Danse festival, these days are devoted to the humanist thought and ideas of freedom of the most famous Montalban woman;lèbre montalbanaises, offer artistic rendezvous, à the meeting of women who trace their luminous wake in the dark sea of indifference and misogyny.

This is the meeting place for sportsmen and women, for those who pass themselves by to accomplish one of the most difficult sporting feats. The course can be adapted to suit your tastes, with the traditional marathon, a half-marathon, the 10kms or even the team trials.

Since 2019, Golf de l’Estang de Montauban has been organising the « Ladies Open », a professional féminin golf tournament, unique in the Occitanie region, every year. Listed on the LET Access Séries calendar among other French dates as part of the European women’s golf circuit, this event brings together French and international players.

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Each year, the Montauban Triathlon offers distance trials for young people, a mixed relay as well as S and M distance trials.

Since 2022, in July, Montauban has been shining with a thousand and one lights, from the facade of its cathedral to the Place Lalaque, via the Ingres Bourdelle museum. Mappings, light trails, interactive shows and plenty of other surprises will keep the city alive throughout the festival. It’s a chance to rediscover the city’s buildings and monuments by night, thanks to a very special illumination of their architecture. The colours of the sky and the monuments come alive before your very eyes.

It pays tribute to a major event in the town’s history: the unfailing resistance of the people of Montalban to the siege of Louis XIII in 1621, which gave rise to the legend of the 400 Blows (see p.4). Every year since then, for one weekend, the town has thrown a party, hosting one of the biggest funfairs in the South-West!

For 40 years, September has been synonymous with heritage! Organised by Montauban’s CIAP, the Journées Européennes du patrimoine (European Heritage Days) bring together lovers of history and heritage to discover the treasures of Greater Montauban

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Lettre d’automne is a literary festival based in Montalban which, for 15 days, invites some of the world’s greatest contemporary writers to change, discuss and give readings on current literary themes. Mathias Énard, Christian Garcin, Brigitte Giraud and Laurent Mauvignier are among the latest guests of honour.

As part of the Manuel Azaña Days, a commemorative ceremony to mark the anniversary of the death of the last President of the Spanish Public Service, Manuel Azaña. These days will include cultural events and a colloquium devoted to an aspect of Spanish history linked to the figure of Manuel Azaña. The aim of the Présence de Manuel Azaña association is to raise awareness in France and other French-speaking countries of the significance of the work and actions of this great figure of democratic Spain. Find out more