Tarn
Tarn is a department in the Occitania region in Southern France. Named after the river Tarn, it had a population of 389844 as of 2019. Its prefecture and largest city is Albi; it has a single subprefecture, Castres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Albi and Carmaux.
Albi
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Albi is the capital of the Department of Tarn in Occitanie in southwest France. It is 75 km northeast of Toulouse.
Carmaux
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Carmaux is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.
Cordes-sur-Ciel
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Cordes-sur-Ciel is a town of about 800 people in Tarn. Cordes-sur-Ciel is a fortified town which was built in 1222 by Raimond VII, the Count of Toulouse.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Gaillac and Castelnau-de-Montmiral.
Gaillac
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Gaillac is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. It had in 2013 a population of 14,334 inhabitants. Its inhabitants are called Gaillacois.
Castelnau-de-Montmiral
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Castelnau-de-Montmiral is a town in the Tarn department of France. It listed among The Most Beautiful Villages of France.
Lisle-sur-Tarn
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Lisle-sur-Tarn is a town in the Tarn region of southern France.
Graulhet
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Graulhet is in the Tarn department of southern France. It used to be an important leather tanning centre, but production has moved overseas. It has some interesting historical buildings.
Briatexte
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Briatexte is a town in the Tarn department of southern France.
Saint-Sulpice
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Saint-Sulpice is a village of 9,000 people in the Tarn department of France. It sits at the confluence of the Tarn and the Agout rivers.
Puycelsi
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Puycelsi is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. It is a member of the Les Plus Beaux Villages de France association. It had 449 inhabitants in 2017.
Couffouleux
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Couffouleux is a town in the Tarn department of southern France.
Lautrec
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Lautrec, in the department of Tarn, is one of the Most Beautiful Villages of France. A former city and seat of the local viscount, it is now a rural settlement of 1,755.
Cadalen
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Cadalen is a town in the Tarn region of southern France. Cadalen is a wonderful place if you like nature.
Giroussens
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Giroussens is a commune in the department of Tarn in southern France. It is particularly famous for its market of European pottery that attracts many tourists in the spring.
Lagrave
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Lagrave is a town in the Tarn region of southern France. At the heart of the thousand-year-old Gaillac vineyard, the village of Lagrave keeps a solid wine tradition.
Vaour
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Vaour is a town of 310 people in the Tarn region of Occitanie. Vaour is a historic site; human occupation dates back at the least to the early Bronze age. You can see very impressive dolmens. You can also see the Commanderie of the Templars.
Montgaillard
Montgaillard is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.Durfort
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Durfort is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. It is located Between Revel, Haute-Garonne and Sorèze, Tarn. It borders the shores of the Sor river, which leads to Montagne Noir.
Tarn
- Type: department of France with 389,000 residents
- Description: French department
- Also known as: “Tarn department”
- Neighbors: Aude, Aveyron, Haute-Garonne, Hérault, and Tarn-et-Garonne
- Location: Occitanie, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tarn” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tarn”
- Albanian: “Tarn”
- Arabic: “تارن”
- Arabic: “ترن”
- Arabic: “تَرن”
- Aragonese: “Tarn”
- Armenian: “Թարն”
- Armenian: “Տառն”
- Arpitan: “Tarn”
- Asturian: “Tarn”
- Azerbaijani: “Tarn (departament)”
- Azerbaijani: “Tarn”
- Basque: “Tarn”
- Bavarian: “Département Tarn”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Тарн”
- Belarusian: “Тарн (дэпартамент)”
- Belarusian: “Тарн”
- Bengali: “টারন”
- Breton: “Tarn”
- Bulgarian: “Тарн”
- Catalan: “Tarn”
- Cebuano: “Tarn”
- Chechen: “ТагӀн”
- Chinese: “Tarn”
- Chinese: “塔恩”
- Chinese: “塔恩省”
- Chuvash: “Тарн”
- Croatian: “Tarn”
- Czech: “Tarn”
- Danish: “Tarn”
- Dutch: “Tarn (departement)”
- Dutch: “Tarn”
- Esperanto: “Tarn”
- Esperanto: “Tarno”
- Estonian: “Tarni departemang”
- Finnish: “Tarn”
- French: “Département du Tarn”
- French: “Tarn”
- Galician: “Tarn”
- Georgian: “ტარნი”
- Georgian: “ტარნის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Département Tarn”
- German: “FR-81”
- German: “Tarn”
- Greek: “Ταρν”
- Gujarati: “ટાર્ન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tarn-sén”
- Hebrew: “טארן”
- Hindi: “टार्न”
- Hungarian: “Tarn”
- Indonesian: “Tarn”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Tarn”
- Irish: “Tarn”
- Italian: “Tarn”
- Japanese: “タルヌ県”
- Kannada: “ಟಾರ್ನ್”
- Kazakh: “Тарн”
- Kongo: “Tarn”
- Korean: “타른주”
- Ladin: “Tarn”
- Ladino: “Tarn”
- Latin: “Tarnis”
- Latvian: “Tarna”
- Limburgan: “Tarn”
- Lithuanian: “Tarnas”
- Lombard: “Tarn”
- Low German: “Tarn”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Tarn”
- Macedonian: “Тарн”
- Malagasy: “Tarn”
- Malay: “Tarn”
- Marathi: “तार्न”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tarn”
- Northern Frisian: “Tarn (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Tarn”
- Northern Sami: “Tarn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tarn”
- Norwegian: “Tarn”
- Occitan (post 1500): “departament de Tarn”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Tarn”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tarn”
- Ossetian: “Тарн (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Тарн”
- Pampanga: “Tarn”
- Persian: “تارن”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Tarn”
- Polish: “Tarn”
- Portuguese: “Tarn”
- Romanian: “departamentul Tarn”
- Romanian: “Tarn”
- Russian: “Тарн”
- Scots: “Tarn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tarn”
- Serbian: “Тарн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tarn”
- Sinhala: “ටාර්න්”
- Slovak: “Tarn”
- Slovenian: “Tarn”
- Spanish: “Tarn”
- Swahili: “Tarn”
- Swedish: “Tarn”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Тарн”
- Tamil: “டர்ன்”
- Telugu: “టార్న్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดตาร์น”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Tarn”
- Turkish: “Tarn”
- Ukrainian: “Тарн”
- Urdu: “تارن”
- Venetian: “Tarn”
- Vietnamese: “Tarn”
- Volapük: “Tarn”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tarn”
- Welsh: “Tarn”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع ٹارن”
- Wu Chinese: “塔恩省”
- Yue Chinese: “塔恩”
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