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July 20, 2021
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The departmental museum in the heart of the episcopal city, reopened this summer after two years of work, is a real nice surprise!

The visit to Notre-Dame de la Sède (included in the tour) is already a heritage gem, enhanced by the quality of the guided tours.
The new museum rooms present the other painted churches in the area, a collection of objects from popular tradition, sacred objects from various treasures of the Couserans, as well as interactive terminals and games for learning while having fun!

Another story of the places…

From 1850 until 1969, the city of Saint-Lizier housed an insane asylum, transformed into a psychiatric hospital, with treatments that were still often very experimental...
The isolation room was furnished with reminders of this past that are still present in the memory of the residents.
As an anecdote, you will see vials of medication found very recently at the foot of the ramparts being renovated: some patients must have managed to get rid of a few doses of sedatives...
The isolation room and its witnesses of “therapeutic” treatments