Wine country of the sun, flamingos and terns bask in wild ponds. Large sandy beaches to hiking in the mountains of Clape, through wonderful abbeys wine, discover a gourmet terroir etiquette Mediterranean. Cap on Narbonne in the Aude!
Narbonne, Roman
The coastline of Narbonne
Hike in Clape
bacchanalian abbeys
factsheet
:: Narbonne, Roman
Ancient Roman and commercial port, now City of Art and History, Narbonne emerges from its past some little forgotten. She gets up to date with cafes and terraces along the Canal de la Robine, listed by Unesco.
The city center is marked by monumental towers and ramparts of an impressive episcopal ensemble that served as a model at the Palais des Papes in Avignon. The unfinished choir and cloister of Saint-Just and Saint-Pasteur cathedral, the keep-Gilles Aycelin, the Archbishop's Palace and museums rub the Roman Horreum.
The cobblestones of the Via Domitia linking Rome to Spain, appear on the front of the Hôtel de Ville. Shiny, pedestrian streets and shopping are paved in red Languedoc marble, quarried in Caunes Minervois.
And then, of course, there is Charles Trenet (1913-2001), whose modest family house with green shutters visit. At hum your way to buy your fish and olives to the markets: "The sea, seen dancing along the clear gulfs has silver reflections ..."
:: The coastline of Narbonne
50 km of sand and many nature reserves for a protege of Saint-Pierre in Port-Leucate coast: there is something wet swimsuit under eye circle birds!
The visit of the curious gulf of Gentle Eye Saint-Pierre-sur-Mer will be followed by a nap on the warm sand of Narbonne-Plage. Thus begins the kingdom of heaven and the sea ...
The 825 hectares of the regional natural reserve of Saint Lucia and its salt in Port La Nouvelle is a network of trails and dikes wild charm, between the sea, lakes and canal. Photographers do not particularly miss the courtship of birds on the rock of Conilhac ...
Nearly Peyriac-sur-Mer, visit the sailing from Port Mahon guided boat trips on the lagoon-Bages Sigean. Out on the water, you will see great egrets and shelducks on the island of Planasse, stubs wooden pillars of the channel of the Romans, the rose lavender Island Aute and the fishing village eel Bages.
Do not be surprised to hear lions roar ... a few of the 300 hectares of African Reserve Sigean home to nearly 4,000 animals, some of which are endangered freely.
Tips seaside? Sun and lazing on the beach Chalets in Gruissan, set of the film "37 ° 2 le matin" JJ Beineix (1986), also on the beaches of the Palm in Port-la-Nouvelle or Leucate. Sports sea and wind are practiced in centers with the same stations ...
Hike in Clape ::
The massive limestone Clape, in the Regional Natural Park of Narbonne, is traversed by bike or on foot around the forest road.
Suddenly, the silence and the welcome shade of Aleppo pines fall on the walker following butternut trails through the Kermes oak, rosemary and juniper. You may hear the tcherr-chiui the tiny warbler Dartford or follow the migration of white and black storks, otherwise the flight of the Bonelli's eagle.
The views of the Mediterranean and vineyards to the valleys animate routes. The most unusual (5 pm, yellow signs from Gruissan) rises marine cemetery of Notre-Dame-des-Auzils.
Also reached by car this privileged location where the staircase lined with 26 missing sailors cenotaphs rises to a chapel housing a collection of model ships and ex-votos painted on the walls.
Do not get too close cavities, some are home to rare populations of bats, including the murine Capaccini the cave Auzils.
At sea, the ride Ghouls (1 hr 30 from the Castle of Bel-Bishop Gruissan), leads to a view of the Mediterranean and then to the pond where Campignol seen with binoculars, plovers, egrets, flamingos people and other birds.
Bachiques abbeys ::
Abbeys Corbières are often synonymous with good wine or craft beer at reasonable prices. When the monks knew how to live ...
- Abbey Fontfroide. The monumental Cistercian Fontfroide (eleventh century) played an important role in the Albigensian Crusade. Cloister and rose soften this wild valley of Corbières.
- AOP Corbières, muscat wine and Brother Convers lager. Restaurant, lodging. Festival, concerts and events. www.fontfroide.com
. Abbey Monges. A Cistercian abbey for women (thirteenth century), it is rare in Languedoc. At the foot of the church restoration, 30 acres of vineyards, Merlot-based and hand-picked, along northern Clape.
- AOC Coteaux du Languedoc. Cuvée des Augustines. Charming cottages. www.abbaye des monges.com
. Abbaye Sainte-Eugenie. The wines' Soul Stone "illustrate the rocky landscape of this former Benedictine abbey (ninth century) recovery by Cistercian Fontfroide.
- AOC Banyuls and Corbières. www. Abbey holy-eugenie.fr
. Abbey of Lagrasse. The community of Canons Regular of Lagrasse sponsors the development of vineyards, Chateau Lalis.
- AOP Corbières. Gites. www.château-lalis.com
. Abbaye Notre-Dame-des-Oubiels (lambs). Romantic ruins classified in Portel des Corbières, stand amid vineyards and the Pyrenees. A former crossing point since the Iberians on the Domitian.
- Rocbères Caves, visiting wineries in the galleries of gyspse, sound and light, train and tasting. www.terra-vinea.eu.
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