Natural features
Cirque de Navacelles
Ganges, Hérault
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…
Natural features in Occitanie, France
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Natural features
Gorges du Tarn
Ispagnac, Lozère
A deep canyon carved by the River Tarn between the limestone plateaus of the Causses, with villages of stone such as Sainte-Énimie and La Malène alon…
Natural features
Jardins de la Fontaine and Tour Magne, Nîmes
Nîmes, Gard
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…
Natural features
Lac du Salagou and the Cirque de Mourèze
Clermont-l'Hérault, Hérault
A lake in a landscape of striking red earth, called ruffe, and black volcanic rocks, west of Montpellier.
Natural features
Camargue gardoise
Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze, Gard
The western part of the Camargue, a land of marshes, reed beds, lagoons and salt meadows where white horses, black bulls and flamingos live.