La Bambouseraie d'Anduze
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A fascinating exotic place, in beautifully calm surroundings. The
visitor is encouraged to re-discover the wonder of nature in this
unusual garden.
opened from
March 1rst to november 15th, 7 days a week from 9.30 am.
Web
site : http://www.bambouseraie.fr
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Le Train à Vapeur des Cévennes
La Grotte de Trabuc
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The cave
of Trabuc is the most important underground network of the Cevennes.
Situated in the periphery of the National Parc of the Cevennes,
every year thousands of spectators come to visit this beautiful
cave.
The part which is opened to the public benefits special protection
in order to preserve the rare diversity of colours and cristals.
A cave changes through the times. According to their age and the
presence of oxydes the cristals are coloured. You will discover
a wide range of differences over only a few metres.
The visit at Trabuc is a surprising discovery.
Web
site : http://www.grottes-de-france.com/traacc.html
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La Grotte des Demoiselles
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The Grotte
des Demoiselles high up in the Hérault valley, a listed site,
also known as the “underground cathedral”.
Visitors cannot fail to be impressed by the sheer scale and beauty
that make this natural monument a genuine rarity. Access by rail.
Tél. 04.67.73.70.02 - Fax 04.67.73.32.32
Web
site : www.demoiselles.com
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Anduze
Historical City, The
gate to the magnificent Cévennes region.
Located on the edge of the Languedoc plains and at the foot of the
Massif Central first southern hills.
Web
site : http://www.ot-anduze.fr/
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Le Pont du Gard
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The Pont
du Gard was built shortly before the Christian era to allow the
aqueduct of Nîmes (which is almost 50 km long) to cross the
Gard river. The Roman architects and hydraulic engineers who designed
this bridge, which stands almost 50 m high and is on three levels
– the longest measuring 275 m – created a technical
as well as an artistic masterpiece.
The third most visited monument in France after the Eiffel Tower
and the Mont St Michel. Important restoration work that has recently
been done to show off this monument gives it a more than an exceptional
character.
Between the magnificent Uzes and the papal Avignon, an obligatory
stopping point.
Web
site : http://www.lepontdugard.com/
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Les Musées
Le
Musée du Désert : In a typical hamlet in the Cévennes,
inside the camisard Chief Rolland's birth place, after an audiovisual
presentation of the Reformation, through 15 rooms and an important
nomber of paintings, objects and documents, The Musée du
Désert revives the Huguenot past, especially the so called
"Desert" period (1685-1787), from the repeal of the Edict
of Nantes to the Edict of Tolérance, the Camisards war, the
persecutions and the resistance, the everyday life in clandestinity,
the long way to liberty of conscience till the french Revolution.
It also intends to bear testimony to protestant fidelity.
Open everyday from March 1st to November 30th from 9.30 to 12.00
and from 14.00 to 18.00 (from july 1st to the first sunday of September,
always open.from 9.30 to 19.00).
Web
site : http://www.museedudesert.com/ |
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Le
Musée Haribo :
In May 1996 HARIBO opened the Musée du Bonbon at its
Uzès production site. Since then, more than 100 000 visitors,
both large and small, have visited the small town in the South of
France to find out about the history of liquorice, fruit gum and
sweet manufacturing.
Web
site : http://www.haribo.com |
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Musée de la
musique in Anduze
: - A musical journey around the world
- A collection of more than 1000 instruments
- Educative workshops for childrens
- Shows in your home town with 80 to 300 instruments
- Shop, mail orders of specific education items
The Anduze Music Museum is located in the Cevennes, south of France.
It is a pleasant and quiet place where one can enjoy the discovery
of several traditional instruments used by civilizations from
all ages and all continents. From primitive drums to complex classical
devices, more than 1000 instruments are currently displayed.
Tel. (33) 4 66 61 86 60 - Opened every days from 10 am to 1 pm
and from 5 pm to 7 pm in july and august. Other periods : opened
on sundays and non-working days from 2 pm to 6 pm.
Web
site : http://www.musee-musique.com/ |
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Musée
du Santon à Générargue :
Crib not from Provence but from the Cévennes. Reconstitution
with sound and lights of the life and professions in Cévennes.
Tel. (33) 4 66 61 66 74 - opened every days from 10 to 12 am and
2 to 7 pm in july and august.
Other periods from 4 to 6 pm. Closed in february..
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La Poterie d'Anduze
De l'orangerie du parc de Versailles aux
jardins de Napoléon, le vase D'ANDUZE a fait le tour de France.
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Since
several centuries, Anduze is the Cévenole capital of the
pottery and also famous for it's very large garlands vases manufactured
by several potters’ families.
Their names are found in different museums, displaying ancient signed
vases. These vases were used to embellish rich residences: oranges
and lemons trees were very often planted and put under cover at
the time of the first colds.
The legend tells that a potter of Anduze having been to the fair
of Beaucaire saw one of those typical Italian Médicis vase,
embellish of flowers, fruits and garlands. Back home he felt as
getting some inspiration from this vase.
Plausible history Beaucaire being, under the ancient regime and
until the end of the XVIII century, the entrance to the Cévennes,
Anduze been the door at the crossroads of the Provence and the Massif
Central.
Thus would be born this original potter art, where the prodigality
Florentine is tempered by the rigor "Cévenole".
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Natural sites
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Le Mont
Aigoual - The Aigoual mountain
Once upon a time there was a mountainous and peaceful massif, complacently
occupied by summer flocks of sheep, and a few mining concerns. It
was even acceptable for a few bottle manufacturers from the plains
to come and get their supplies of wood needed for glass production.
That was the Aigoual.
But things started to go awry in the middle of the 19th century,
when disease struck the silkworm that had brought such riches to
the Valleys…
With the devils of poverty and misery hard on their heels, people
tried to make up for the loss, and so began an abusive exploitation
of the mountain.
In the lower parts, it was the goats that devoured the vegetation,
while the upper slopes were occupied in summer by the flocks of
sheep in transhumance. The deforesting that followed soon brought
in its wake disastrous effects. Devastating floods swept over the
plains and through the valleys. Then at last one day, the official
reforestation state departments began to take an interest in the
Aigoual. This was at a time when, in France and across the world,
the upper atmosphere was being more closely examined from high-altitude
meteorological stations.
It was Georges Fabre the forester who showed the importance of linking
meteorological observation with that of forests and agriculture.
Web
site : http://www.aigoual.org/
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Le parc
naturel des Cévennes - The Natural park of the Cevennes
Lying astride the departments of Gard and Lozère, the Park
covers four different and typical regions:
* The Aigoual and the Lingas, a granite and schistose massif mostly
covered in forests,
* The Cevennes Valleys, schistose country typified by chestnut trees
and goat and sheep farming,
* Mount Lozère, a granite massif associated with cattle-raising,
with its summit at 1699 metres.
* The Causse Méjean, a limestone plateau at round 1000 metres
altitude, mutton farming land.
Flora: of the 200 species that have been inventoried, broom, briar,
juniper, cranberries and rosebay willow herbs populate the landscape
according to altitude.
Fauna: If hunting in the Park is authorised, it is because of the
need to cull certain species, especially wild boar and even stags
and roebuck, which have been brought back.
Cinereous and griffon vultures have also been brought back, and
are thriving in the territory, whereas the great snowcock is still
very rare.
A few beaver colonies, in the rivers of the Cevennes, round out
the originality of the fauna. So, whatever the manner in which you
approach it, by car, on foot or horseback, by bicycle or on skis,
keep your eyes open or better still, use binoculars!.
Web
site : http://cevennes.atlas.parcsnationaux.org/
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Sporting activities
Various
sport activities are available in the vicinity of the campsite.
We can mention :
- horse riding
- fishing
- canoëkayaking
- Archery
- Golf
- Walk ...
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To learn more about our beautiful region, we invite
you to consult the web sites mentionned in "our partners"
page !
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