Visiting gard

Discover the gard and its varieties of landscape. visit this department which is composed of places in charge of history…

Montfrin - village located between the rhone and the gardon rive  Located between the Rhone and Gardon, Monfrin, “Monsferinus” giboyeux Latin Mont means is equipped with a rich person inheritance. The village is marked prints of Templiers, the Hospital ones of Midsummer's Day of Jerusalem, then Penitent blacks, and on the frontages of the noble houses which accomodated courses royal at the time where Montfrin was a town of famous water. The economic activity of Monfrin is especially turned towards a wine agriculture (Twyers-side, Côte of the Rhone Village, Côte of the Rhone), and its traditions taurines. To see: Church (IMH) Romance: tympanum of the Virgin to the Child, historiées cornices, carved capitals… Commandery of Jean Saint, The Castle classified with the Historic buildings, Frontage Rebirth, Vault of the Penitent blacks, Vestiges of the old ramparts, Rectangular keep XII° at Roman base, Since the street of the Rocks, seen on the village, the church, the “lathes sarrasines” and Gardon. Not to miss: The site of the Balsam: Partly dug in the rock, this site shelters 76 niches with bees, which would make of it the largest apiary of France, The weekly market of Tuesday morning, Banks of Gardon, The votive festival.

Meynes, main village of the valley  Located on the blank of the slopes of the Twyers-side and dominating the valley of Gardon, Meynes is a medieval village combining a historical last rich person and a respectful modernism of the traditions. Medenas at the time Carolingian, the village was strengthened and depend on the marquis de Monteynard. There were in Meynes 13 furnaces (5 potters and 8 tile makers) and the old hamlet of Tileries with its houses with the beautiful apparatus of bricks punts and alternate round rollers. The rural character of Meynes continues by its vineyards, its plantations of olive-trees, its truck farming and its arboriculture: who make the essence of his economic activity. To see: The famous fountain of Make-Cluse to the healing virtues. Charlemagne, François 1°, Marguerite de Valois, Louis XIII and well of others took water there, The castle of Clausonne, Bullfights in the streets, With not missing: The historical center of the Meynes old man and his church of the XII° strengthened by the templiers and rebuilt with the XVIII° century: bell-tower with waste-gas mains XII, The furnace bridge of the church dating from V° or VI° century. Many burials and important Gallo-Roman furniture, Vestiges templiers, Funerary Latin inscription, embedded in the wall of a house XVII°: epitaph of Rutilia Marcella, The public swimming pool, Weekly market Wednesday morning.

Fournes, a village perched in the center of the territory  Village perched in the center of the territory, Fournès is drawn up in the middle of a single and unexpected decoration: pits of Fournès. Site with very strong geological characteristic. Located on a height, to 130 meters of altitude, Fournès, contained in its ramparts all around a strong castle extended formerly (built in 1150 some vestiges are still visible). Its vines planted on the côteaux ones dominating Gardon produce a Coast of the typified Rhone. The economic activity is primarily market-gardening and wine. The industrial activity is also present with the manufacture of tiling of ground. To see: Saint-Pierre vault, XII°. built on the spot of the battle “Campouriol says” (restored with the XIX°, Carolingian vestiges), Thirteen martyrdoms, The current church with its 3 naves and its separated bell-tower, built in 1836, The visit of the old center, With not missing: Pits of Fournès: lunar landscape made up of pitons from 10 to 30 meters in height made up of white argillaceous marls. Passage of the GR. 6, The walk of the source of Noquet A famous child of Fournès: The bust of J.L Gilly, officer general of the large army of Napoleon on the place of Planet.

Estezargues, perched village  Village perched in the center of the territory, Fournès is drawn up in the middle of a single and unexpected decoration: pits of Fournès. Site with very strong geological characteristic. Located on a height, to 130 meters of altitude, Fournès, contained in its ramparts all around a strong castle extended formerly (built in 1150 some vestiges are still visible). Its vines planted on the côteaux ones dominating Gardon produce a Coast of the typified Rhone. The economic activity is primarily market-gardening and wine. The industrial activity is also present with the manufacture of tiling of ground. To see: Saint-Pierre vault, XII°. built on the spot of the battle “Campouriol says” (restored with the XIX°, Carolingian vestiges), Thirteen martyrdoms, The current church with its 3 naves and its separated bell-tower, built in 1836, The visit of the old center, With not missing: Pits of Fournès: lunar landscape made up of pitons from 10 to 30 meters in height made up of white argillaceous marls. Passage of the GR. 6, The walk of the source of Noquet A famous child of Fournès: The bust of J.L Gilly, officer general of the large army of Napoleon on the place of Planet.

Comps - village at the confluence of the gardon and the rhone  Located at the confluence of Gardon and the Rhone, Comps was worked by their whims. Forming only one commune with Vallabrègues formerly, this one was pushed back little by little towards left bank with the liking of the changes of the bed of the river. The peak of the Needle (153 Mr.) dominates the village where was recently updated a habitat troglodytic of VIè century approximately before our era at the locality Castling. Not strategic and centers economic formerly by its port, Comps was a granting, stage on the ways of Uzège to the sea and passage to ford towards Provence. Nowadays, fruit-bearing arboriculture and the vine (Coast of the Rhone Village) côtoie cultural tourism and attractive sportsman. To see: The laundrette close to the arenas towards the edges of Gardon The statue of Nicolas Saint, street St Nicolas, owner of the boatmen Place Town hall, turn of the Clock integrated into the Town hall With not missing: Peak of the Needle - Table of orientation: exceptional panoramic sight - Site of Castling Votive festival and taurine 13 at August 15 Wednesdays of the Laundrette, spectacles with topic July-August GR6 and GR42 towards the Bridge of Gard and Beaucaire on the one hand and towards Théziers by Montfrin, on the other hand Way of small excursion PR “Romance St” of the Aqueduct of Romance St towards the old village and the ornithological zone of the Island of the Blunder.

Collias, village on the banks of the gardon river  Located on left Bank of Gardon Collias would owe its origin to the Greeks. The successive occupants left traces: occupation of the caves to paleolithic, traces Roman then pagan and paléochrétiennes in the classified site of the Hermitage. The almost virgin landscapes of the Throats of the gardon and immense plates which dominate them are a paradise for the hikers, and all the activities of river are practised there. Collias was a great center of production of silk until the XIXème century. It is also the cradle of olive “pickled olive”. To see: The classified site of the Hermitage, The Notre Dame vault of Laval; The church St Vincent of the XIX ème century and its interior paintings, Many climbing ways, Via ferrata, Scrubland and its flora. not to miss: Activities of canoe kayak The Small excursion (PR) of the Hermitage: The way of Torte, Many paths sets of themes of fauna, The GR. 63, Throats of Gardon: natural site protected from fauna and the flora.