Discover tourist sites in the herault

Discover the ancient cities and release you in the many seaside resorts of the south of france…

Discover vias plage  Old city of ancient origin, Vias is mentioned for the first time into 899, in a charter of évêché of Agde: the stronghold of Vias originates in an old Gallo-Roman villa resulting from the Roman colonization of soil. However, the occupation of the territory is much older: traces of habitat chalcolithic (2000 years before J.C.) were found on the sides of the extinct volcano Castling-High, as well as testimonys of the passage into 600 before J.C of Greek navigators. In XIIème century appears the castrum (strengthened village) with its ramparts built out of volcanic stone who give to the village his very characteristic round form. At that time, one reaches the borough by four doors with drawbridge, whose only the door of St-Thibéry remains.

Discover valras plage  You like the walk or fishing, to taste seafood and fish fresh, you prefer to bathe with your children in full safety along 4 km of gilded beaches, to practise tennis or the VTT, to learn the rudiments from the veil or quite simply to bronze, you prélasser in the shade of a terrace while looking at passing the traditional boats of fishermen, to try your chance with the casino… Valras-beach, seaside resort family and animated, is the privileged place of your holidays all the year.

Discover palavas-les-flots  The town of Palavas-the-Floods, seaside resort of the south of France, is happy to accomodate you with its sunny beaches. This small fishing port is also a place privileged for the walks and trott them. Very animated, the station proposes a plentiful diary of animations and spectacles to you. Nautical activities, visits of its museums will decorate your stay.

Discover balaruc-les-bains  Meditation in the fresh and shaded parks, with the bathes in this pond so large that it makes figure of small sea, while passing by the dawdlings in the city or on the markets of full air, Balaruc-the-Baths conceals thousand and one richnesses. Then, discover… and will return to you there!!!

Discover bedarieux  It is the town of art and culture, the cultural action was always the engine of the development of this city altered with the colors of the 21st century. Richness and plurality of cultural programming influenced by banks of the Mediterranean; beauty and astonishment with go to the Space of Contemporary art; the book for all in a media library open on the literary world and its richnesses make of Bédarieux the cultural pole of the great west héraultais.

Discover the town of serignan  Name: Sérignan Date of birth: Gallo-Roman time. Birthplace: longitude: 3° 16 ' is, latitude: 43° 16 ' north. Surface: 2.744 hectares. A number of inhabitants: 6.049 with the census complementary to 1997. Distinguishing marks: commune divided in two urbanized poles: agglomeration and the littoral. Origins of the name Several proposals clash but none is sufficiently convincing to carry the decision. The insalubrity of the dunes and the slopes opposing all food crops, Sérignan would come from the contraction of sierra (serrecôte) and inanus (sterile). Of aucuns recommend like origin the patronym of a man called Erignan or Serenus, name of a Roman centurion rewarded for his campaigns by the attribution of a villa. If it does not have the merit to be madly original, this last suggestion falls under the liked logic probable one. The imagination of the scribes will make evolve/move ours quoted in Serigna or Sérinha according to the times and cartulaires, very officially, according to the names of the communes of the diocese of Béziers, the village evolves/moves successively of Sérinhanus, in Sérignagnus, Sirinianus and Sirignianus. The situation At the same time with the doors of Spain, with the threshold of the Camargue and the buttresses of the Cevennes, located more exactly in Low-Languedoc, Sérignan profits from an ideal geographical situation, in the center of a hinged plate. The communal territory is bordered by the communes of Portiragnes, Villeneuve-lès-Béziers, Sauvian, Vendres and Valras-Beach and in south-east by the Mediterranean. Sérignan, a modern city It is the last decade of the century which will see Sérignan returning truly in the modern time, and to structure itself in true contemporary city, offering to its inhabitants, comfort, services and activities. A particular effort is related to the places of Sérignan, neuralgic places of the activity of the city. Thus the Walk presents all the typical criteria of the place of the southernmost city, such as the imaginary popular one represents it: secular plane trees shaded terraces, crawling market of life.

Welcome to lodeve  Carry of the Mediterranean, sub-prefecture of Herault, Lodève profits from a geographical situation privileged on the free motorway A75.