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 17th-century canal, a World Heritage Site. Watching the boats go up and down is a pleasure.
Nearby, the canal crosses the River Orb on a bridge, and the cathedral of Béziers stands on the hill opposite. The towpath is good for walking and cycling.
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.
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 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 massive Spanish fortress built in the 1490s, when Roussillon was part of Spain, to guard the road from France.
A spectacular canyon in the limestone plateaus of the Causses, where the River Vis once looped around a meander, leaving a hill in the middle of a va…
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