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 James. Its narrow streets of stone houses climb towards the ruined castle of the giant.
Downstream, the 11th-century Pont du Diable crosses the river; in summer people swim and canoe below it. The Clamouse show cave is nearby.
A lake in a landscape of striking red earth, called ruffe, and black volcanic rocks, west of Montpellier.
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…
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 walled town in the marshes of the Camargue, built by Saint Louis in the 13th century as his port for the Crusades, with ramparts over 1.6 km long s…
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.
Beautiful 18th-century gardens built around the spring that gave Nîmes its name, with statues, stone balustrades, canals and the ruins of the Roman T…
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