Figeac is on the via Podiensis, a major medieval pilgrimage trail that is part of the Camino de Santiago network.

[citation needed] Figeac is classified as a city of art and history and has been recognized by the Midi-Pyrénées Regional Council as one of the eighteen Great Sites of Occitania.

[citation needed] A capital from this church, the top part of a column, was re-cut into a font and is exhibited in New York at The Cloisters (Metropolitan Museum of Art)).

Yet it is the oldest parish of Figeac, born, according to tradition, from a miracle: The Virgin would have made a hawthorn bloom there in winter.

[11] Embedded in a medieval architectural ensemble, its floor is covered with a monumental reproduction of the Rosetta Stone (14 × 7 m), carved in black granite from Zimbabwe by the American conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth.

Inaugurated in April 1991, this important contemporary work can also be contemplated from the museum's hanging garden overlooking the square.

A subscription raised 4,000 francs and two years later a granite needle 7.8 meters high was extracted from the rock of Golinhac.

[13] Formerly the Place de la Halle, it is surrounded by imposing houses, some made of cob, with wrought iron balconies, and under the roofs, open covered galleries, the soleilhos, which were once used to dry clothes or skins, or as a refuge to get some fresh air during a hot summer evening.

[17] On the Place des écritures (writings square) is a giant copy of the Rosetta Stone, by Joseph Kosuth.

French explorer and archeologist Théodore Ber was born in Figeac, although he spent most of his adult life in Peru.

[18] German film historian Lotte H. Eisner hid from the Nazis in Figeac during World War II.