Charming town of Tarn, Occitan region Rabastens takes place forty kilometers from Albi and its cathedral, between Lisle-sur-Tarn and Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe. Shooting privileged vacation of Toulouse, it is located near Giroussens, Loupiac and Roquemaure.
Inhabited since the Gallo-Roman, as evidenced by the remains found there, the territory of Rabastens develops later in the Middle Ages, in particular indicator affected by the Albigensian Crusade. Faithful to the counts of Toulouse, the town has indeed destroy the fortifications following the Treaty of Paris of 1229. Thanks to its vineyard, then she knows a great period of prosperity, to the horrors of the Hundred Years War. Thereafter Rabastens turns to the culture of pastel, knowing a significant gentrification in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Today, the city of the southwest of France continues to attract visitors with its special charm and beauty of its architecture.