An ancient hilltop town between Béziers and Narbonne, lived in from the 6th century BC until Roman times, with a museum of Greek vases and finds. From the top, you look down on the remarkable Étang de Montady, a medieval drained lake whose fields fan out like the spokes of a wheel.
The Malpas tunnel of the Canal du Midi runs under the hill.
A staircase of eight locks on the Canal du Midi at Béziers, lifting boats 21 metres up the hillside, one of the great feats of Pierre-Paul Riquet's 1…
A medieval village perched on a rocky spur between the gorges of the Cesse and Brian rivers, besieged by Simon de Montfort in 1210 during the crusade…
A lake in a landscape of striking red earth, called ruffe, and black volcanic rocks, west of Montpellier.
A massive Spanish fortress built in the 1490s, when Roussillon was part of Spain, to guard the road from France.
A medieval village tucked into the wild gorges of the Hérault, around the Romanesque abbey of Gellone, founded in 804 and a stop on the Way of St Jam…
A fortified medieval city on a hill in Languedoc, with a double ring of walls and 52 towers, restored in the 19th century by the architect Viollet-le…
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