Hôtel de Fontfroide

The plain facade of this seventeenth century mansion hides a particularly elegant courtyard. The very deep balustered staircase makes it spectacular.

Hôtel de Fontfroide is in the old Les Garrigues shopkeepers' quarter.

Here, in the eighteenth century craft production contrasted with the industrial textile industry in the north of the city and craftsmen's shops rubbed shoulders naturally with the residences of the bourgeoisie.