Montpellier, France Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

A thousand years of trade and intellectual activity have made MONTPELLIER a teeming, energetic city. Benjamin of Tudela, the tireless twelfth-century Jewish traveller, reported its streets crowded with traders from every corner of Egypt, Greece, Gaul, Spain, Genoa and Pisa. A few hiccups – like being sold to France in 1349, almost total destruction for its Protestantism in 1622, and depression in the wine trade in the early years of the last century – have done little to dent this progress. Today it vies with Toulouse for the title of most dynamic city in the south. The reputation of its university … more »