La Coopérative Musée Cérès Franco, Art museum in Montolieu, France.
The museum occupies a converted wine cooperative building, featuring exhibition spaces dedicated to contemporary and outsider art across multiple floors.
The structure, originally built as a wine cooperative in 1939, transformed into an art gallery in the 2000s before becoming a museum in 2019.
The collection contains 1,651 artworks from 348 artists representing 56 nationalities, including pieces from expressionist, surrealist, and art brut movements.
The museum currently undergoes renovations to expand exhibition spaces, create new documentation areas, and implement accessibility improvements for disabled visitors.
The collection stems from art critic Cérès Franco's personal assemblage, donated in February 2020, representing artists from four continents.
Location: Montolieu
Accessibility: Acceso limitado en silla de ruedas
Address: Route d'Alzonne 11170 Montolieu 11170 Montolieu
Phone: +33468789629
Email: info@collectionceresfranco.com
Website: https://collectionceresfranco.com
GPS coordinates: 43.30617,2.21517
Latest update: March 5, 2025 01:55
The region around Carcassonne features an area marked by medieval and Cathar history, with castles, abbeys, and old villages. The Cité of Carcassonne displays its city walls restored in the 19th century by Viollet-le-Duc, while the Canal du Midi has traversed the region for 240 kilometers since the 17th century. The castles of Quéribus and Peyrepertuse overlook the landscape from their rocky spurs at over 700 meters above sea level, serving as the last strongholds of the Cathar resistance in the 13th century. Villages like Minerve and Lagrasse showcase medieval architecture, with narrow streets, ancient bridges, and Benedictine abbeys. The region also includes the four Lastours castles aligned along a ridge, the Saint-Maurice Cathedral in Mirepoix with its 22-meter-wide Gothic nave, and natural sites like Lake Cavayère. These monuments and landscapes form a representative ensemble of the south of France’s historical and natural heritage, accessible from Carcassonne.
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Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Villelongue
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Moulin à papier de Brousses
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Château d'Aragon
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Arboretum du Lampy
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Église Saint-Clément de Fontiers-Cabardès
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Manufacture royale de Montolieu
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Château de l'Abbé
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Chapelle de la Madeleine
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Église Saint-André de Montolieu
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Cactuseraie d'Escaïre-Figue
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Croix de cimetière de Saint-Martin-le-Vieil
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Croix de Montolieu
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Croix de chemin d'Aragon
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Remparts de Saissac
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Église Saint-Martin de Moussoulens
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Église Saint-Sébastien de Cazelles
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Église Sainte-Marie d'Aragon
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Chapelle Saint-Étienne de Villaret
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Église de l'Assomption-de-Notre-Dame d'Alzonne
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Église Saint-Étienne de Villaret
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Vestiges de l'abbatiale Sainte-Marie de Saint-Martin-le-Vieil
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Chapelle Saint-Roch de Montolieu
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Chapelle Saint-Roch de Saint-Martin-le-Vieil
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