Bassin de Thau – Canal du Midi – Lac du Salagou – Grottes Demoiselle et Clamouse – Cirque de Navacelles – St. Guilhem le Désert – la Cité médiévale de Carcassonne – Pézenas – la cité des templiers La Couvertoirade – les caves de Roquefort – caves des Vignerons du Languedoc and a lot of other wonderful sites in this sunny region.

Sète, are on the coastline. Sète was founded in 1666 by Colbert and is today the first harbor of fishing and the second French trade harbor on the Mediterranean. Native city of Paul Valèry (1871-1945) poet, Georges Brassens (1921-1981) singer and poet and Jean Vilar (1912-1971) actor and creator of the festival of Avignon.

Agde (Agathé Tyché), Greek trading post founded at the 5th century before J. C. with its cathedral Saint Etienne, constructed 12th century in lava black.

Pézenas (Piscenae), Roman walled camp, that became in 1261 a royal lordship. At the 17 century the prince of Conti, brother of Louis II, held a sumptuous court where Molière came to play several times between 1650 and 1656 there. Also the homeland of the singer Bobby Lapointe.

Béziers avec des nombreuses ruines romaines est surtout connu pour le Canal de Midi et les 9 écluses, classés patrimoine mondial par l'UNESCO. Pierre Paul Riquet (1604-1680), enfant du pays, a construit ce canal (241 km) qui relie le vallée de la Garonne et la Méditerranée entre 1666 et 1681. La ville est également la patrie de Jean Moulin (1899-1943) héros national de la résistance.

Nimes (Nemausus), at the origin a Gallic village, was annexed by Romen in 121 before J. -C. and became an auspicious commercial colony. Of the numerous Roman vestiges, as the arena constructsed in the 1rst century after J.C., are preserved well and used always. The square house, temple to the Greek style, shelter a Roman sculpture museum. Bastide of bullfighting, Nîmes attracts numerous visitors during the féria. The city was also the homeland of Jean Nicot, Lord of Villemain (1530-1694), ambassador in Lisboa, and to that history attribu the introduction of tobacco in France, and of Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) novelist.

Aigues-Mortes, whose main activities are the saline, the tourism and the wine growing, is a medieval bastide. Constructed on a regular plan in a rectangle of 500 ms on 300 ms it is surrounded of battlements dominated by the tower Constancy, 40 ms of top. Founded in the 13th century by Saint Louis, the city served him as departure harbor for the seventh and the eighth crusade.

Carcassonne is divided in two parts, the city and the cité, walled district date the Middle Ages. Situated on a hill on the left strand of the Aude, the cité possesses battlements, some dated of the 6th century.

Narbonne, created on an old Gallic site in 118 before J.C., was under the name of Narbo Martius the first Roman establishment in Gaul. The city shelters between other the cathedral Saint Just, begun in 1272 on the initiative the pope Clement IV, old archbishop of Narbonne. Charles Trenet, singer, is a child of the country.

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