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Discover towns and cities to visit in the herault department.

Discover palavas-les-flots

Discover palavas-les-flots


  The town of Palavas-the-Floods, seaside resort of the south of France, is happy to accomodate you with its sunny beaches. This small fishing port is also a place privileged for the walks and trott them. Very animated, the station proposes a plentiful diary of animations and spectacles to you. Nautical activities, visits of its museums will decorate your stay.

Discover balaruc-les-bains

Discover balaruc-les-bains


  BALARUC-LES-BAINS, IN ALL SENS… Meditation in the fresh and shaded parks, with the bathes in this pond so large that it makes figure of small sea, while passing by the dawdlings in the city or on the markets of full air, Balaruc-the-Baths conceals thousand and one richnesses. Then, discover… and will return to you there!!!

Discover bedarieux

Discover bedarieux


   town of art and culture, the cultural action was always the engine of the development of this city altered with the colors of the 21st century. Richness and plurality of cultural programming influenced by banks of the Mediterranean; beauty and astonishment with go to the Space of Contemporary art; the book for all in a media library open on the literary world and its richnesses make of Bédarieux the cultural pole of the great west héraultais.

Discover serignan

Discover serignan


  Name: Sérignan Date of birth: Gallo-Roman time. Birthplace: longitude: 3° 16 ' is, latitude: 43° 16 ' north. Surface: 2.744 hectares. A number of inhabitants: 6.049 with the census complementary to 1997. Distinguishing marks: commune divided in two urbanized poles: agglomeration and the littoral. Origins of the name Several proposals clash but none is sufficiently convincing to carry the decision. The insalubrity of the dunes and the slopes opposing all food crops, Sérignan would come from the contraction of sierra (serrecôte) and inanus (sterile). Of aucuns recommend like origin the patronym of a man called Erignan or Serenus, name of a Roman centurion rewarded for his campaigns by the attribution of a villa. If it does not have the merit to be madly original, this last suggestion falls under the liked logic probable one. The imagination of the scribes will make evolve/move ours quoted in Serigna or Sérinha according to the times and cartulaires, very officially, according to the names of the communes of the diocese of Béziers, the village evolves/moves successively of Sérinhanus, in Sérignagnus, Sirinianus and Sirignianus. The situation At the same time with the doors of Spain, with the threshold of the Camargue and the buttresses of the Cevennes, located more exactly in Low-Languedoc, Sérignan profits from an ideal geographical situation, in the center of a hinged plate. The communal territory is bordered by the communes of Portiragnes, Villeneuve-lès-Béziers, Sauvian, Vendres and Valras-Beach and in south-east by the Mediterranean. Sérignan, a modern city It is the last decade of the century which will see Sérignan returning truly in the modern time, and to structure itself in true contemporary city, offering to its inhabitants, comfort, services and activities. A particular effort is related to the places of Sérignan, neuralgic places of the activity of the city. Thus the Walk presents all the typical criteria of the place of the southernmost city, such as the imaginary popular one represents it: secular plane trees shaded terraces, crawling market of life.

Discover lodeve

Discover lodeve


  Carry of the Mediterranean, sub-prefecture of Herault, Lodève profits from a geographical situation privileged on the free motorway A75.

Discover marseillan

Discover marseillan


  By its exceptional situation on the edges of the Mediterranean, the basin of Thau and along the Channel of the South, Marseillan holds the privilege to combine the joys of the beach and the attraction of a small port to the undeniable charm, very appreciated yachtmen. Marseillan kept its typically southernmost authenticity where the accent gorged with sun of its inhabitants heats the hearts and invites at unforgettable times of relaxation. Each summer, its seaside resort, very convivial, lives on a rate/rhythm of festival.

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