Some restaurants in the historic center of Montpellier. Montpellier is a small town in the Midi, Herault region 14 kilometers from the Mediterranean coast. It has about 200,000 inhabitants and is, above all, a fantastic city to live, has it all: it is dynamic, warm, full of life, with all the necessary services. Besides being really nice is full of places to discover, whether historical or modern, lots of greenery and a pleasant climate. It is a quiet town but also full of progress that give the crowd of students from all over the world who populate their schools and universities. If you go through the whole center will get a small street, Rue Foch, ending with the courthouse and the triumphal arch that leads to the Promenade du Peyrou, a nice park, but with too much cement for my taste, culminating with the "Château d'eau" and the Roman aqueduct that crosses part of the city. Another park where getting lost is worth the Jardin des Plantes, the oldest botanical park in France created by Henry IV in 1593, for the medical school of the city. Returning to Antigone, we find an ultra modern district with large buildings in a style that blends contemporary architecture with neoclassical full of wide open spaces. Particularly, I think a little cold, but if I were planting trees everywhere, so I guess quite glad the area, the neighborhood ends with a channel surrounded by restaurants, mostly very "industrial", though one with much charm as The gingette, and the building of the Regional Assembly. A bird's eye view this neighborhood, designed by Ricardo Bofill, has a key. Nearby there are small beach towns, some are typical villages you would find anywhere in Valencia (La Grande Motte, Carnon, etc.) and others have little surprises as Palavas, with a fairytale castle.