Discovered Bassin de Thau and Languedoc
7 days-6 nights

You will remain
in the Hotel Residence Arcadius ***,
with the heart of a pine forest,
with Balaruc-les-Bains.
The excursions will start
from your place of stay.

Day 1 : Frontignan-Sète

Assumption of responsibility of the group at the exit of the A9 motorway. Installation and lunch with the Residence. Departure for Frontignan. Visit of the Co-operative Cellar of famous Muscat of
Frontignan, cultivated since Antiquity. Discover this ancestral know-how. The visit is concluded by tasting from this marvellous nectar. Departure for Sète: original visit of Venice Languedocien. The Mount Clear St and its panoramic site of the White Stones. A panorama seizing on the Basin of Thau, the second pond of Europe. In clear weather, the sight carries of Canigou to the Ventoux Mount. With the foot of the Mount Clear St, Sète seems a checkerwork posed between sea and pond. Ballade through the city along the channels and of the pleasure and fishing ports to the iodized scents and the singing accent. Here, Italy posed its boot with the arrival of a strong colony at the beginning of last century. Return to the Residence.
To dine and harms.

Day 2 : Aigues Mortes

After the breakfast, departure for Aigues Mortes, one day of discovered city and of its surroundings. Visit commented on medieval city: amusing and sympathetic nerve, the small train circulates with the Heart of the old city. The comment on line evokes Saint-Louis and the crusades, the construction of the ramparts, the wars of religion.
Visit Wine storehouses of the Field of Jarras. Between legends and traditions, the fields reveal you some their secrecies. The visit ends in a tasting. To lunch in the city the Acute Dead ones. At the beginning of after midday, departure for an enthralling walk on board a boat barge, with accompanying notes by one impassioned. Discovered of the secret and strange Camargue which can be penetrated only by channels and rivers. You will have the privilege to stop you in a herd where you will attend the work of the gardians. Possibility of Aigues Mortes time spare. Return to the Residence. To dine and harms.

Day 3 : Bouzigues-Marseillan-Montpellier

After the breakfast, departure for Bouzigues, cradle of the Breeding and the Refining of shells. Visit Museum of the Pond of Thau, true alive memory of its activities of fishing and shellfish farming. Departure for Marseillan. Visit of Noilly Prat. It is in the buildings of origin, going back to 1825, that all the production is carried out:
preserved in large the lightnings of oak, the wines age in the freshness of the wine storehouses, then in thousands of barrels aligned in the enclosure with open sky. Return to the Residence for the lunch. After the lunch, departure for Montpellier, capital of the area Languedoc Roussillon. Walk in its old districts and its superb
gardens (the Place of the Comedy, the Place of Canourgue, the Walk of Peyrou, the Cathedral St Pierre). Spare time. Return to the Residence.
To dine and harms.

Day 4 : St Guilhem le Désert and
Cave of Clamouse

Après le petit déjeuner, départ pour St Guilhem le Désert. Guided tour of the "Village-street", classified among the most beautiful villages of France. All at the bottom of the village, you
will discover the Abbey of Gellone, built at the XI 2nd century beginning, on the ruins of a Carolingian church, and in which the remainders of Guillaume d' Orange, first cousin of Charlemagne rest, and founder of the Abbey. It is in this same building that a piece ofthe Holy Cross of Christ, given is exposed with Guillaume byCharlemagne. To lunch free Departure to visit the Caves of Clamouse, discovered in 1945, with the favour of an exceptional dryness which made it possible to cross the siphon of the source of Clamouse. This cave dazzles by the whiteness of its concretions and the originalityof its crystallizations. Return to the Residence.
To dine and harms.

Day 5 : Arles et Nîmes

After the breakfast, departure for Arles. One often evokes Arles for the richness of his ancient and Romance inheritance, his monuments registered with the world inheritance of UNESCO in 1981 of which the Amphitheatre (arenas), the ancient Theatre, Cryptoportiques, Alyscamps, Thermal baths of Constantin, the Saint-Trophime cloister and the gate of Saint-Trophime. Concurrently to this remarkable architecture, Arles preserves also beautiful constructions of XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe centuries. Since 1986, the city is classified "Town of art and history". To lunch in Arles Departure for Nimes the Roman who offers her two thousand years of history. Guided tour of the city.
Return to the Residence. To dine and harms.

Day 6 : Sète

After the breakfast, departure for Sète. Discovered Space George Brassens, a meeting memory with the famous singer poet. New documents and a great intimacy to be divided with most famous of the sétois. A great moment of emotion … Loading for the cruising-dresser on the Pond of Thau on board Aquarius (minimum 35 people). Observation of the oyster beds, the practices of traditional fishing or modern breeding.
Mediterranean dresser been used for edge, composed of specialities of the area (aperitif of welcome, oyster-moulds, rust of the fisherman, small dry in escabèche, sardines with the basil, salad of rice to the seafood, salad niçoise, chicken, rosbeef, cheese, pastry making, wine and coffee).

Day 7 : Balaruc-les-Bains

After the breakfast, guided tour of Balaruc-the-Baths, 3rd thermal spain France, after Aix-the-Baths, and Dax, considered for the healing virtues of its muds. Spare time for the last purchases. To lunch with the residence. Departure at the beginning of after midday in direction of your city.