Construction in 1692 allowed thanks to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, since Montauban was initially Protestant.
Building with a Latin cross plan, with a classical façade: it is framed by two towers. The portal is also framed by columns surmounted by statues. The second level is crowned by a pediment.
The Church of Saint-Clair of Saint-Porquier, Occitania was built in the sixteenth century, on the foundations of an older, eleventh century building that was ruined during the Hundred Years War. The building is of Southern Gothic style. It consists of a nave that opens on a three sided choir, flanked with side chapels. An octagonal bell-tower is flanked by a staircase turret. The interior was painted in the late nineteenth century.
Moissac is known for its grandiose cloister. It has twenty capitals on two sides and eighteen on each of the other two, making a total of seventy-six. The decoration of the capitals combines floral and historiated motifs, many of them with detailed inscriptions.
The present church was built in the 15th century, with later modifications and restorations. At the foot of the church is the bell tower, erected on a square-shaped narthex with an upper floor, probably dating from the 12th century.
The abbey was founded in the 7th century. Attached in 1047 to the Abbey of Cluny, it became the most important monastic centre in southwestern France as early as the 12th century.
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