District Languedoc-Roussillon

gewest Languedoc - Rousillon  departement Herault

ligging Valras Plage5 departments  - 27378km2 – 2.109.800 inhabitants

Gard -  capital : Nimes 135000 inhabitants

Lozére
– capital : Mende 12000 inhabitants

Hérault – capital : Montpellier 236000 inhabitants

Aude – Capital : Carcassonne 42000 inhabitants

Pyrénées-Orientales
– capital : Perpignan 139000 inhabitants

 

Valrasplage:

A fishing and yacht harbour with a huge fine sand beach streching all the way to Grau de Vendres.


This seaside resort is alive and offers lots of tourist infrastructure and animation in the outdoor theater, casino,and Palais de la Mer (sea palace)


Visit in spring and autumn to see the flowers open in the protected dunes

For the sporting we have tennis courts, petanque (bowling), golf (9holes) foodball, bicycle, basket-ball, fishing along the pier.

All information you’ll find at the tourism office, like when you have local markets at Sète, Cap d’Agde, Vias, Sérignan, Narbonne, Gruissan etc.

Béziers:

ligging Beziers

Le canal du midi (channel of south France) with 8 stepform sluices at Fonséranes over a lenght of 312m and height of 25m. The wine  route with cypress and platane trees along the channel 



Old religious buildings like the cathedral St.Nazaire on top of the old city and the old bridge above  the river Orbe.

kathedraal St. Nazaire en de oude brug over de Orbe


The basin of Thau and the wonders of Herault:

The largest pond of Languedoc, 7500 hectares and an annual production of + / -12,000 tons of oysters, mussels, etc.

Frontignan
Sweet amber wine

 

 

Balaruc-les Bains
healing cure for rheumatic disorder




Bouzigues
Cradle of shellfish farming


 

Méze
medieval town


Sète
first fishing harbour




Saint Thibery
Roman bridge to Pézenas








Gignac
the 3 arches bridge over de Hérault



Grotte de Clamouse

leave deposits show remarkable by their fine form


Lake Salagou

750 hectaren




The regional park of Haut-Languedoc:


Saint Chinian
known for their wines

Saint Pons de Thomières
center of the nature reserve 

La Salvetat-sur-Agout
well known for its mineral water

 

Olargues
picturesque village with a protruding bell tower

Gorges d’Héric
gathering of walkers, climers and swimmers

 

Roquebrun
village with a microclimate also named “petit Nice de l’Hérault"

 

Cessenon
Situated againsed a hillside donjon (big tower) from the 12th century

The national park of Cevennen

Saint Martin de Londres
Fortified village










Grotte des Demoiselles
Also named underground cathedral

 

 

Cirque de Navacelles
Left by the river 300m lower meander on the high plateau


 





Mont Aigoual
(1567m)
With meteorological observatory and with
open skies view of the Alpes and Pyrénées


 

Anduze
with de caves of Trabuc and the small train of Cévennes