Tarn
The Tarn is a 380.2-kilometre long river in the administrative region of Occitania in southern France. It is a right tributary of the Garonne. The Tarn runs in a roughly westerly direction, from its source at an elevation of 1,550 m on Mont Lozère in the…Photo: Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in southern France
- Also known as: “Le Tarn Rivière”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Moissac Abbey and Moissac station.
Moissac Abbey
Protected area
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Moissac Abbey was a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne in south-western France. A number of its medieval buildings survive, including the abbey church, which has a famous and important Romanesque sculpture around the entrance. Moissac Abbey is situated 4 km northeast of Tarn.
Moissac station
Railway station
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Moissac station is a railway station in Moissac, Occitanie, France. The station is on the Bordeaux–Sète railway. The station is served by TER services operated by SNCF. Moissac station is situated 3½ km northeast of Tarn.
Château de Richard Cœur de Lion
Castle
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Château de Richard Cœur de Lion is a castle, which is situated 3 km southwest of Tarn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boudou and Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave.
Boudou
Village
Photo: Bastien.pierre, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Boudou is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Boudou is located near the confluence of the rivers Tarn and Garonne. Boudou is situated 2½ km northwest of Tarn.
Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave
Village
Photo: MOSSOT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, the founder of the American city of Detroit was born here in 1658. Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave is situated 3 km southwest of Tarn.
Moissac
Photo: Hervé P, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Moissac is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France. The town is situated at the confluence of the rivers Garonne and Tarn at the Canal de Garonne.
Tarn
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitanie, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Tarn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر الترن”
- Armenian: “Tarn”
- Armenian: “Թարն”
- Armenian: “Տառն”
- Armenian: “Տարն”
- Asturian: “Ríu Tarn”
- Asturian: “Tarn”
- Basque: “Tarn”
- Bavarian: “Tarn”
- Belarusian: “Тарн”
- Bengali: “তার্ন নদী”
- Breton: “Tarn”
- Bulgarian: “Тарн”
- Catalan: “el Tarn”
- Catalan: “riu Tarn”
- Catalan: “Riu Tarn”
- Catalan: “Tarn”
- Cebuano: “Tarn”
- Chinese: “塔恩河”
- Croatian: “Tarn”
- Czech: “Tarn”
- Danish: “Tarn”
- Dutch: “Tarn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تارن”
- Esperanto: “Tarno”
- Estonian: “Tarn”
- Estonian: “Tarni jõgi”
- Finnish: “Tarn”
- French: “Tarn”
- German: “Tarn”
- Greek: “Ταρν”
- Hebrew: “טארן”
- Hungarian: “Tarn”
- Irish: “Tarn”
- Italian: “Tarn”
- Japanese: “タルヌ川”
- Japanese: “タルン川”
- Latin: “Tarn”
- Latin: “Tarnis”
- Lithuanian: “Tarn”
- Lithuanian: “Tarnas”
- Luxembourgish: “Tarn”
- Macedonian: “Тарн”
- Malayalam: “Tarn River”
- Malayalam: “ടാൺ നദി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Tarn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gorges du Tarn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tarn”
- Norwegian: “Tarn”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tarn”
- Persian: “تارن”
- Persian: “رودخانه تارن”
- Piemontese: “Tarn”
- Polish: “Tarn”
- Portuguese: “Rio Tarn”
- Portuguese: “Tarn”
- Romanian: “Râul Tarn”
- Romanian: “Tarn”
- Russian: “Тарн (река)”
- Russian: “Тарн”
- Serbian: “Тарн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tarn”
- Slovenian: “Tarn”
- South Azerbaijani: “تارن چایی”
- Spanish: “rio Tarn”
- Spanish: “río Tarn”
- Spanish: “Río Tarn”
- Spanish: “Tarn”
- Swedish: “Tarn”
- Ukrainian: “Тарн”
- Venetian: “Fiume Tarn”
- Venetian: “Tarn”
- Welsh: “Afon Tarn”
- Welsh: “Tarn”
- “Tarn”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Moissac Railway Station and Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Moissac.
Tarn-et-Garonne: Must-Visit Destinations
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