languedoc-roussillon
THE MEDITERRANEAN WITH AN ADVANTAGE

From the Camargue to the Eastern point of the Pyrenees, and from the wild extents of large causses to the Mediterranean littoral, Languedoc-Roussillon is an area with the thousand facets and numerous possibilities of relaxation and leisures.

MORE SUN...
The softness of its climate, combined with an exceptional sunning, will enable you to better discover it, throughout the year, at the time of great holidays or of short-stays.

MORE SPACE...
On more than 200 kilometers of beaches and preserved spaces, the seaside resorts offer to you all their pallet of water activities and estival animations. The Mediterranean with an advantage, it is also to leave to the footpaths, to let oneself be graid by the imposing landscapes of the back-country, to join nature again and to practise all the open air sports there. Go to the meeting of the inhabitants, to share with them their art of living, is still the best way of discovering the charms of Languedoc-Roussillon.

MORE HISTORY...
The Mediterranean with an advantage, it is also to wander in the cities of art, to discover a historical and cultural inheritance of several centuries, or to leave on the traces of its famous characters, by going up the course of the history.

MORE CULTURE...
Be bewitched by the traditional festivals of the villages of character. Let yourself be involved in the museums and other historical places which constitute the richness of Languedoc-Roussillon. Be allured by the festivals of music, dance or theatre, sheltered in sumptuous architectural or natural setting.

MORE SAVOURS...
Benefit from your stay in Languedoc Roussillon to taste its authentic products and to taste its traditional kitchen, accompanied by wines whose quality today is universally recognized. The whole of the professionals of tourism invites you to live intense moments in Languedoc-Roussillon. The convivial reception of your hosts, combined with services of quality, will guarantee the success of your holidays

THE MEDITERRANEAN OF YOUR CAMARGUE AT THE VERMILION COAST
The littoral of Languedoc-Roussillon is stretched on two hundred kilometers of sandy coast, enamelled by some zones of relief with the Saint-Clair mount in Sète, theSaint-Loup mount in the Cape of Agde, the massif of Clape in Narbonne, to which follows the cut out littoral of the Vermilion Coast.
This littoral with the multiple facets, where virgin and protected spaces and more urbanized zones cohabit, exhibit a single lagoon landscape, and a kingdom of the pink flamingos, brushes or will herons. Forty thousand hectares of wild nature where fauna and flora abound in perfect harmony. Common features also characterize the littoral, like the maintenance of the traditions which is expressed as well in Camargue, country of the salt makers, the sagneurs and the manadiers, in Sète and Palavas, theatre of water tournaments, as in the ports of the Vermeille coast where traditional fishing rhythmises local life.
Another sign of the diversity of this arc open on the Mediterranean, the wise mixture between fishing ports bathed of history and a chain of accessible and cordial seaside resorts.
Built since the end of the Seventies, seven seaside resorts Port-Camargue, Grande-Motte, Cap d'Agde, Gruissan, Port Leucate, Port Barcarès and Saint-Cyprien - mark out and animate the littoral by marrying their local environment.
In extension of Grau-du-Roi, a second harbor of Mediterranean trawling, the Port of Camargue is today the first marina in Europe. Its water vocation is not denied as long as the suggested activities are multiple, among which regattas, cruisings, sporting fishing, windsurf and other hobby-cat.
The two stations of the coast of Languedoc: Grande-Motte, with innovative architecture, and the Cape of Agile, universally known for its naturist center that is the largest of Europe, ignite the seasons of summer.
Lastly, this littoral with its setting: Sète. The fatherland of Paul Valéry and George Brassens, stacked on a hill and furrowed of channels, lives at the rhythm of its harbors of trade, fishing and pleasure.
In Aude, within an exceptional framework formed by the massif of Clape with the odorous and populated pine forests cicadas, Gruissan just like Leucate, is a paradise for the amateur sailboarders who are enthusiastic for big thrills.
In theEastern Pyrenees, the sensations are visual. Perfectly rectilinear until Collioure, before becoming rocky with its splits of dream, the roussillonnian littoral offers a complete Mediterranean pallet with Port-Barcarès, Canet-plage, Saint-Cyprien...
Lastly, not far from Spain, the Vermeille coast is revealed, immense, and wild. Its villages kept all their authenticity, whether it is about Collioure, Banyuls, Port-Vendres or Cerbére, they, by their light and beauty, sharpened the imagination of the largest painters like Matisse or Picasso.