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Causses
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UNESCO world heritage , Mediterranean agro-
pastoral Landscape
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Causses
Cevennes
Gorges du Tarn
Mont Lozère
Gorges de la Jonte
Mont Aigoual
France
UNESCO World
Heritage
spresentation candidature :
The Cevennes National Park proposes a Nature
Festival : guided walks with different themes, mainly in summer, but
also in autumn and spring you might enjoy flora, deers, mushrooms etc.
for free.
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Hiking Holiday in the Cevennes National Park
region
Languedoc Roussillon, Southern France
Cevennes - Gorges du Tarn
- Causses - Gorges de la Jonte
- Mont Lozère - Mont Aigoual, Southern Central Massif -
France
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Holiday in
the Cevennes
National Park ;
a natural, calm and green region with splendid nature,
luxurious protected Flora & Fauna, very variated
landscapes, amazing
silence, a hearty reception and true starry nights...
Have a nice walk to know the truth of the beauty of the Cevennes,
rocky valleys with chestnuts orchards and a landscape shaped
in terraces by men, with meditterranean climate.
Exceptional landscapes, interesting architecture
of the impressionating granitic mountains Mont Aigoual and
Mont Lozere.
Crossing the highlands Causse Méjean,
Causse de Sauveterre and Causse noire, beautiful limestone highlands cutted out by the renown depths of
the Gorges du tarn and the Gorges de la Jonte, where you can
canoe, fish, hike, bike, dine properly or simply love unspoilt
nature...
Numerous very cute villages, sports in nature and a variated offer
to stay, to offer yourself a gastronomical trip and take
breath...
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Discovery
of the PNC
The Cevennes National Park created
ecomuseums, differing from classical museums like in Le Pont de Montvert
(the Mont
Lozère) to spread them out in the landscape like on the highlands and in the Cevennes valleys
to valorize interesting heritage elements at the spot, there were they are created
and did functionate - in their historical surrounding.
So there are several interesting hiking tracks in the
"Vallée Française" and surroundings to discover the Cevennes
heritage.
Well indicated and explicated short walks with a brochure at the starting point to explain
the Cevennes culture.
Amazing flora, fauna, history, landscapes, architecture etc.
Discovery-paths of the ECO-museum of the schist Cevennes :
Landscape-path of Barre des Cévennes 3
km:
discovery of the village (history, evolution, architecture, geology, religion)
and the surrounding landscapes
Under the shelter of the "Castelas" - a so-called
rockformation, Barre des Cévennes with it's lined up facades in an old urban model
makes remind its rich and very animated history.
The map realised after the land registry of 1826 will historically mark your visit
in these cute narrow streets.
The path will lead you from the fountains to the kitchen-gardens, from the temple to the
church, by the former famous market- and fairs- squares to surprise you at the end
with beatiful points of views to the Can noire and the
Malzac-valley.
Footpath la Roquette ( 2,5
km) at Molezon
to discover a quarter of the high-Cevennes : architecture,
organisation of a hamlet, the terraces-system, the sweet chestnut
orchard, the
apiaries and the history of Protestantism.
From the D 983, Sainte Croix Vallée Française to Barre des Cévennes take the little
road at your right at the exit of Pont-Ravagers. Go on about 5 km to park your car
at the right side. Departure close to the mill in between Ste Croix Vallée Française and
Trabassac, take a guiding-brochure which is available at the start.
Footpath of the Canourgue tower: Vestige
of a XIIth century defence system, which fonctionated till the XVth
century.
It was a signal-tower network connecting Anduze to Florac. The traject of 3 km (to
and fro, 1 hour) passing by a abandoned hamlet approaching differents
themes. You can park
your car on the departemental road from Ste Croix Vallée Française to Barre des
Cévennes, close to "château du Mazel". The guiding-brochure is available at
the parking.
Then you'll climb up the terraces and the little footpath arrives in between two walls
under oaktrees. Finally you'll arrive at the slatestone buildings with behind the modest
cimetary with sepulchres only marked by two stones and a cipres symbolising the flame of
eternity.
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nature
Canoeing
in the
Gorges du Tarn :
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The Cevennes offers besides
nature
and culture also everything of what a
gourmand is dreaming of : pelardon
(goatcheese), chestnuts,
confitures, and very good pork-butchers
with fresh trouts...
For those who prefer to leave the cuisine to someone else there are very varied and
renown restaurants and guesttables (table d'hôte).
Ones tired of all this hiking,
biking and
admiring you can choose
out of a very divers offer off charming accomodations for dinner, supper
or stay overnight, according
to your taste..
in a calm, natural, beautiful and quiet scenery...
Which section are you looking for ?
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maps of communes region Cevennes National park
The Trabassac-brook valley
To discover the different aspects of this "mas cévenol" (farm consisting out of
a real hamlet) and its environment, you have to walk around to feel the
atmosphere.
The path gows up in between rocks and chestnut-trees and then crosses the
brook. Like in the most cevenols hamlet you can admire the old apiary with beehives out of
a hollow chestnut-trunk with a big slatestone and the bread-oven.
| Also at Molezon in the Vallée Française:
la
Magnanerie de la Roque:" le fil de la mémoire" (the memory-thread)
building constructed for silkworm (magnans) breeding.(Cevennes
"golden age"). |
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