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Getting
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Driving
times for this area:
10 to 14 hours from Calais
or Lille under
normal
driving conditions.
Best
access routes from the UK, Belgium or Holland:
Western sector - motorways via Orleans
Eastern sector: motorways via Dijon and Lyons, or Orleans and
Clermont-Ferrand.
Regional
airports: Toulouse,
Montpellier, Carcassonne, Nimes,
Pau, Perpignan.
Peripheral
airport: Marseilles |
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6b Gites in
Languedoc, Cevennes and eastern Pyrenees |
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Essential background
information
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MIDI PYRENEES & Basque
country
A brief regional
profile:
The "Midi
Pyrenees"
administrative region of modern France covers a large part of the
lowland area between the Massif Central mountains to the north east,
and the Pyrenees to the south.
Most of this area
consists of plain or of gentle rolling hills, and is not unlike Tuscany
in many parts. The region is strongly agricultural, with production of
sunflowers, corn, vines and other crops.
The
Pyrenees,
forming a natural land barrier between France and Spain, are
a beautiful range of high mountains, thickly wooded on their lower
slopes, but offering good mountaineering and hill walking higher
up, as well as skiing in winter - not to
mention the attraction of day trips into Spain. In the west,
the Basque
country,
in the department of "Pyrénées Atlantiques"
(administratively part of Aquitaine) is where the Pyrenees, clad with
bracken and gorse, come down to meet the Atlantic. The Basque area has
its own culture, architecture and language, shared with the Spanish
Basque region beyond the Pyrenees.
Biarritz,
on the Atlantic coast, is a very popular resort.
The biggest city in the region, and administrative
capital, is Toulouse,
nicknamed the "pink city" on account of the the abundant and historic
use of bricks as building material. Other historic cities include Albi, capital of the Tarn, with its
astonishing fortified mediaeval cathredal built
almost entirely of red brick, or Foix, capital of the Ariège.
The capital of the Pyrenees, Pau,
is a delightful city, standing before a backdrop of the high mountains
to the south. One other very famous place in the Pyrenees is the
pilgrimage centre of Lourdes.
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LANGUEDOC
A brief regional
profile:
This
area extends from the peaks and valleys of the Cevennes, in the
north east, to the Spanish border in the south.
The Cevennes,
rising to some 1400 metres at their highest, are
beautiful mountains, with lush forests on their lower slopes, and open
hilltops above. The steep-sided valleys are threaded by roads that
twist and turn for miles on end.
In the north of the region, the Lozere department is
a high dry area stretching from the Cevennes to the Aubrac plateau.
The coastal strip of Languedoc
is fairly flat, and agricultural,
being one of France's biggest wine-producing areas. It is dotted with
small villages and towns, very Mediterranean in look and feel. Inland
from the coastal plain, and coming right down to the sea in the
department of Aude, is the "garrigue", arid rocky
Mediteranean hills
with their vegetation of scrub, aromatic bushes and occasional fields.
The main cities of Languedoc are Montpellier,
the regional
capital, Nimes
famous for its superb Roman remains, Narbonne, Perpignan,
the port of Sète,
and Beziers,
which are very meridional in flavour. The city of Carcassonne, with its
fairytale mediaeval fortifications (a rather romantic
nineteenth-century renovation) is one of the region's most popular
attractions. The Languedoc coast
offers large expanses of sandy beaches, between rather brash modern or
sixties resorts such as Cap
d'Agde.
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Gites
and holiday cottages in Languedoc
- Midi Pyrenees - Cevennes
Locations de
vacances en Midi
Pyrénées - Languedoc
- Cévennes 
