A quaint family-run hotel, Hostellerie du Grand Saint Antoine has been sitting 500 metres from Albi Cathedral & Toulouse-Lautrec Museum since 1734. Combining antique furniture & floral fabrics with a contemporary touch, this charming four-star inn is the picture of calm & serenity in the Tarn Valley. The Rieux family has been welcoming visitors to this dead-central Albi gem for five generations. You can stroll around the peaceful garden before venturing out to the Tarn River & the pink-brick Sainte-Cécile Cathedral, both just moments away. Learn about France's naughtiest painter, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, in the museum dedicated to his life inside the impressive Palais de la Berbie, commissioned by the powerful Bishops of Albi in the 13th century. If you ever tire of pretty country walks in the surrounding Tarn Valley, tantalising French wines await you half an hour's drive away in the Gaillac vineyards & the buzzing university city of Toulouse is a 50-minute drive southwards.