Montpellier is a dynamic and cosmopolitan student city. It offers to the visitor from its historical centre civil and religious buildings of rare beauty and great architectural diversity. From the districts of St Anne and St Roch to the St Peter cathedral, its private hotels dating from the XVII and XVIII centuries and its Haussman buildings, through the Place de la Comedie and the Promenade du Peyrou, the regional capital of the Languedoc Roussillon has a historical heritage of great importance which has been preserved and improved over the years. It is a very attractive place close to the Mediterranean, with a population of 250,000, with a mixture of history and modernity.