Discovering the gard department

Green forests of the cevennes, sunny beaches of the mediterranean, wild and odorous vegetation of the scrubland, one of the cradles of roman civilization in europe… the gard welcomes you!

Grau du roi  Grounds of union between the Rhone and the Mediterranean, the grounds of the Camargue forged a heart during centuries. It is in this territory, rich person of a past closely related to Saint Louis and the crusades, that the traditional village of Grau of the King, developed with the rate/rhythm of its fishing port. Today, the village became seaside resort, in the respect of the traditions by jealously preserving an inheritance and a rare local identity in Languedoc-Roussillon. The station of Grau of the King accomodates you in all simplicity and invites you to discover the port, the channel, alive heart of the city, to stroll along small lanes bordered of low houses and with living the tradition and the so particular environment of the festivals, animations and spectacles which make the pride of people of the country.

Aigues mortes  In the middle of the Camargue the medieval city of Acute-Dead, built in XIIIème century according to the will of Louis Saint emerges. The Tower of Constancy remains one of the most majestic keeps of the architecture of the Average Age and its ramparts surround this high place of the Gastronomy camarguaise.

La cocaliere  The cocaliere in one of the most beautiful caves of France and most visited Europe. The temperature is constant (14°) there, you will discover an alive cave where the stalactites, stalagmites, discs, eccentrics are reflected in the water levels (gours) to the calcite festoons. Around even of the cave, a beautiful path discovered cross-piece a worked Mediterranean karst at the time tertiary sector with, with the passage, a dolmen and capitelle.

L'aven d'orgnac  L'aven d'orgnac propose to you a fabulous voyage in the depths of the ground and time. To go: the discovery of one of the most imposing cavities arranged in Europe, emotion with the meeting of the origins of the man; from 350.000 to 750 years before our era.

St hippolyte du fort  To 45 km of Nimes and Montpellier, in the back Mediterranean country, Holy Hippolyte of the Fort, rich person of his past camisard and leaned with the first mountainous buttresses, are one of the “Doors of the Cevennes”. Crossing by Vidourle with the sudden risings, especially in autumn, the city was always a zone of exchange for the products of the highland and the Mediterranean plain. This one recalls the sericultural past in the Cevennes (St Hippolyte of the Fort was formerly the seat of the silk controllers of the Cevennes). It presents the techniques of transformation of silk, of the breeding of the caterpillar to the manufacture of the fabric.

Lunel  Installed in the green valley of Vidourle, the Country of Lunel offers a large variety of landscapes. In the south the Marshes, a splendid decoration strewn with “huts”, picturesque constructions of another age, more in north, odorous scrubland and savage who yields sometimes his slopes to a vineyard considered for his sweet aperitif wine: muscatel of Lunel and for its classified wines. In love ones with History, architecture and beautiful walks will be able to like this Country of Lunel like all the amateurs of tradition taurine. And then the sun, the sea and its immense beaches of fine sand are at a few minutes only downtown area.

Lodève  Causses and circuses, green plains, the great diversity of the landscapes of Lodévois marks the natural transition between Larzac and Languedoc. Volsque village, Gallo-Roman city then not of stage of the Pilgrims of Compostelle, Lodève is named in many old texts. Evêché as of IVème century, the medieval borough does not cease growing and becomes capital textile of XVIIIe with XIXe.