Barles
The village of Barles is worldwide known among geologists for the peculiarities of its territory, where giant fossil ammonites can be found which date back to 200 million years ago. The area is protec...
Read moreFraïsse sur Agôut
The lovely, tiny village has many small blooming gardens: various groups of sparse houses base their wealth on fishing and bathing tourism in the local ponds or lakes. Archaeological vestiges dating b...
Read moreGorges de La Frau
The gorges are located in an extraordinary chalky place and extend along 3 km, with overhanging walls being 3-400m high. The name probably comes from the Latin term fragor, in its double meaning of no...
Read moreMont Ventoux
Mont Ventoux (1912 m) is an insulated calcareous massif extending over about 25 kilometres: for this reason it is also renowned as ‘the Giant of Provence’. Its Occitan name is Mont Ventor,...
Read moreMontagne de Lure
The Montagne de Lure is a long ridge stretching from the west to the east. It is mainly calcareous and its geological origins belong to the massif of Mont Ventoux. It is characterized by wooded sides ...
Read moreRéserve naturelle des Gorges de l’Ardèche
The gorges of Ardèche (Réserve naturelle des Gorges de l'Ardèche) is a protected area spread over 1575 hectares of forest, with a river flowing through its centre, winding with n...
Read moreThe Canal du Midi
The Canal du Midi links the Mediterranean and the Atlantic through various streams and the waterway of the Garonne, connecting the towns of Bordeaux, Toulouse, Carcassonne, Béziers and Sè...
Read moreThe Causse de Blandas
The Causse de Blandas is a karstic upland delimited by the course of the Arre to the north and the Vis and the Causse de Larzac to the south. Around 800 hectares of the upland are protected as a Site ...
Read moreThe Dentelles de Montmirail
The Dentelles de Montmirail are the farthest western strip of land of the massif of the Baronnies, which includes the Montagne de Lure and Mont Ventoux. The Dentelles de Montmirail owe their name to t...
Read moreThe gorges and the Cirque des Navacelles
The gorges and the Cirque des Navacelles can be seen from the Blandas viewpoint. The Cirque des Navacelles is a dead meander of the river where the homonymous village is located, on the hill in the mi...
Read moreThe Gorges de Galamus
The stream Agly dug a narrow gorge in the limestone and dolomites dating back from the Lower Jurassic to the lower Cretaceous (between 205 and 108 million years ago). The two sides look very different...
Read moreThe lake of Allos
The lake of Allos (54 hectares)is the widest natural lake at a high altitude in Northern Europe. There is a hotel-refuge on its shore and slightly above there is the small church of Notre-Dame des Mon...
Read moreThe Merdelou
The Merdelou is an important mountain for the Occitan world. It is part of the Monts de Lacaune, the southern foothills of the Massif Central, and its crest represents the watershed between the Medite...
Read moreThe mill of La Foux
The mill of La Foux is located at the resurgence of the Vis; although the river starts at an altitude of 1300 m on the Montagne du Lingas, it sinks below the chalky upland of the Larzac. The waters co...
Read moreThe Moulin de Trédos
The Moulin de Trédos was built in the middle of the XVII century over some Roman ruins. The mill is fed by a complex system of irrigation ditches (besals o beals) and is nowadays a tourist faci...
Read moreThe Parc National des Cévennes
The Parc National des Cévennes is spread over a territory with an extremely low population density (about 10 inhabitants per square kilometre), due to a massive exodus of the population started...
Read moreThe Pech de Bugarach
The Pech de Bugarach (m 1230) is the first true Pyrenean peak on the route and it is the summit of the Corbières massif. It is interesting from the geological point of view as the more recent l...
Read moreThe upland of Sault
The chalky upland of Sault was named after the Latin word saltus, forest, since the whole district of the Pays de Sault is rich in forests. The average altitude of the upland is around 800-900 metres....
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