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 against the Cathars. A replica of the great catapult used in the siege stands across the gorge.
Walk down into the gorge to see the natural bridges the river has carved through the rock. It's in the heart of the Minervois wine region.
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 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…
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 massive Spanish fortress built in the 1490s, when Roussillon was part of Spain, to guard the road from France.
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…
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