To Nimes, all comes from the Source, its mysterious god that the Romans called Nemausus. Art and history were born here. Court crowned during centuries, at the origin of the first invasions, first monuments, the Source offered the economic richness to the clothiers as of 12^th century. And if, today, it has calms apparent basins of approval, it continues to bubble in the heart of the legends of Nîmes.

Gardens of the Fountain (Roman baths) – the temple of Diane and the Magne-tower, the door of Auguste, the square House arenas, the Nimes old man…
Its Férias of Pentecost and the grape harvest.

Office de Tourisme de Nîmes
6 rue Auguste – 30000 Nîmes
Tél. : 0033. 4 66 58 38 00
Fax : 0033. 4 66 58 38 01
http://www.ot-nimes.fr/

En particulier, après une présentation audiovisuelle de la Réforme :

- La période du « Désert » (1685-1787) de la révocation de l’Edit de Nantes à l’Edit de Tolérance.
- La Guerre des Camisards.
- La répression et la résistance.
- La vie quotidienne dans la clandestinité.
- La longue marche vers la liberté de conscience jusqu’à la révolution.

Il veut aussi être un témoignage de fidélité protestante.

A travers ses quinze salles, le Musée du Désert présente notamment :

- Un mobilier cévenol et des objets familiers du XVIIIème siècle.
- La reconstitution d’une veillée cévenole.
- Des armes et des cartes de la guerre des Cévennes.
- Les cachettes des hommes traqués et des livres interdits.
- Les affiches du pouvoir royal.
- Des chaires, des coupes de la Sainte Cène, des actes de naissance et de mariage au Désert.
- Un ensemble remarquable de Bibles et de psautiers,
- Une importante collection de gravures et de tableaux (les peintres protestants de l’histoire protestante)…

The park of the wolves of Sainte-Lucie accommodates a museum and especially more than 100 wolves of 4 different species in semi-freedom in the vast enclosed grounds.

In knowing more about the wolves of Gévaudan

The house of the aurochs

With a reconstituted herd of the ancestor of the cow, the house of the aurochs in Margeride presents a museum to make you discover the aurochs.

In knowing more about the house of the aurochs

The watching tower of the vultures

In the heart of the Jonte gorges, a museum and a punt form observation with the binocular of the vultures which move in freedom in the skies between two Causses.

In knowing more about the view-point of the vultures

Celtic place of dwelling, colonized by the Greeks, Arles becomes Roman by the grace of Cesar who establishes there veterans of its legions in 46 before JC.

It is the first golden age of « small Rome of Gaules » which will be a great religious centre of the first times of Christendom.
Ruined and wounded by the invasions of the high Middle Age, the city reappears in the12th century and the splendour of its mediaeval monuments testifies of the vitality and the richness of this time.

The 17th and 18th centuries see the construction of innumerable private mansions, which make, still today, the charm of the old centre, where several registered monuments are gathered, a 2000 years heritage of history.
Since 1981 the whole of the Roman and Romance monuments are registered by UNESCO and belong to the world inheritance of humanity.

Office de Tourisme d’Arles du Pays d’Arles
43 bd de Craponne – 13200 ARLES
Tél : 04 90 18 32 60 – Fax : 04 90 93 17 17
Email: http://www.tourisme.ville-arles.fr/

For several centuries, Anduze has been the Cevennes capital of pottery, celebrated in particular for its mugs with large-sized garlands, manufactured formerly by several families of potters whose names can be found in several museums.

Office de tourisme Intercommunal Autour d’Anduze
Plan de Brie
30140 Anduze
Tél. : 04 66 61 98 17
Fax : 04 66 61 79 77
Email: infos@ot-anduze.fr;infos@artactif.org

La Bambouseraie

Prafrance

The name of PRAFRANCE comes from Pra Fran which meant pre-fran, which means free from tax. This privilege granted to the Lords remains only the name deformed by the use in PRAFRANCE. This field of a surface of 34 hectares, located at Générargues, 11 km in the south-west of Alès and 2 km in the north of Anduze, corresponds geographically to a basin whose bottom consists of modern alluvia of quaternary and whose walls are made of limestones of various periods and granite. Not far from Prafrance, Gardon spawning time a passage through narrow valleys, granitic upstream (Roucan) and limestones downstream (rocks of Anduze). Benefiting from the Mediterranean climate, Prafrance receives on average 1100 mm of water per year, but the mode of water can be irregular, torrential storms or dryness, therefore the park obtained permanent irrigation canals, of which the length exceeds 5 km.

It is within this privileged framework that the Bamboo plantation of Prafrance was created by a Cevennes inhabitant passionate of botany: Eugene Mazel. Mazel had made fortune in the trade of spices which were imported directly from Asia. This activity enabled him to let come from these remote countries almost unknown plants of its time, to Europe.

The origin of Aigues-Mortes goes back a long way. Men used to collect salt, to tame the whims of a wild nature, and a malarial climate long before King Louis IX came in the 13th century to glorify the history of these sites.

Henceforth Aigues-Mortes, a withdrawn mediaeval witness, evolves and surprises, crossing inexorably wars, conflicts, times of peace, centuries of glory and misery. Its towers and ramparts are marked by time, haunted by the mystery of their resistance.

Nowadays, Aigues-Mortes preserves its traditional games with bulls. Centre of Camargue gastronomy, it turns to the Mediterranean sea and combines the secret of the past and the charm of the future.

Office de Tourisme
Place Saint Louis – B.P 32
30220 Aigues-Mortes
Tel. (0033) 4.66.53.73.00
Fax. (0033) 04.66.53.65.94

info@ot-aiguesmortes.fr
 

The « vessel in the Cevennes », draws its name from its architectural form : a spectacular and single prow in Europe. Come and visit this tourist place of the Cevennes !

The castle itself gathers a square or rectangular keep, a rectangular home, a castral vault and dependences, the whole being protected by a strong enclosure. The Guerin Guard thus kept his mediaeval structure but the houses are dated from 16th century, following a rebuilding of the village. In 1929 the whole village of the Guerin Guard was registered as a remarkable « site », and the turn-keep, the castle and the Michaelmas church as « Historic Monuments « .

The castle of Aujac

Today, the castle of Aujac makes it possible to discover a site, an environment and a history, on this route dating back to 1270 and known under the name of Val Cezarencha.

Cheylard d’Aujac is a rural fortress at human size, which controlled formerly human, historical and cultural displacements along the high valley of Cèze. This high Cevennes place, located at the northern point of the Gard Département, is characterized by a rich person mediaeval inheritance in an area with mainly Gallo-Roman heritage.

You will find on the Mechanical Pole of Alès – Cevennes, the widest range of activities for piloting cars, motorbikes and karts available in France.
These driving training courses are given by schools specialized on speed circuit, kart, asphalts rally and ground rally.
To discover the layout of one of the tracks of the Mechanical Pole, we suggest you a meeting for virtual piloting on our speed circuit.

Pôle Mécanique Alès Cévennes
Vallon Fontanes 30520St Martin de Valgalgues
Tél. : (0033) 4 66 30 31 85
Fax : (0033) 4 66 30 79 89
Director
Laurent CORRIC
l.corric@pole-mecanique.com
http://pole-mecanique.com/actualites.html

How to get from the « Mas des Oliviers » to the « Mecanic Pole » (Vallon de Fontane)
Turn right when leaving the Mas des Oliviers, then turn left and go straight through two roundabouts go on to the rocade and turn right.

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