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  AllRefer.com - CEvennes, France (French Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
The CEvennes proper occupy the central section of a mountainous arc (average height 3,000 ft/910 m), swinging generally NE from the Montagne Noire (NE of Toulouse) to Mont Pilat (SW of Lyons).
Between the CEvennes proper and the Montagne Noire are the Causses : barren limestone plateaus intersected by deep chasms and ravines.
Mont LozEre (5,584 ft/1,702 m) is the highest peak of the CEvennes proper; Mont MEzenc rises to 5,753 ft (1,754 m).
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Cevennes.html   (257 words)

  
 The history of the chestnut tree in the Cevennes
In the Cevennes that corresponds with the 4 departments occupied by the Celts: Aveyron, Gard, Herault and Lozere and last butl not least, the Ardeche.
The Cevennes monasteries were better able to ensure the subsistence of their inhabitants.
1750-1850 the golden age of the Cevennes economy, the roads are arranged and the commerce establishes permanent relations and trade with the plain, the Rhone-valley and the Mediterranean.
causses-cevennes.com /flore/chataignes/history.htm   (2047 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Travel - News - The Cevennes region: France's best-kept secret   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
A view of a stone tower in the village of la Couvertoirade on the isolated Causses de Lingas plateau in the Cevennes, southern France.
The village is an ideal jumping-off point to explore the 5,171-foot Mount Aigoual, which lies on the edge of the 365-square-mile Cevennes National Park, one of seven such nature reserves in France and the only one with a resident population in its central zone.
Among sites not to miss in the Cevennes is the Grotte des Demoiselles, a vast cave complex revealing a mysterious subterranean world that locals once believed was home to fairies.
www.usatoday.com /travel/news/features/2002/2002-09-11-cevennes.htm   (1248 words)

  
 Cevennes Holiday, Languedoc, Southern France
View on the Cevennes valleys off the Mont Aigoual picture A.
The Cevennes National Park created several interesting hiking tracks in the "Vallée Française" and surroundings to discover the Cevennes heritage.
The Cevennes offers besides nature and culture also everything of what a gourmand is dreaming of : pelardon(goatcheese), chestnuts, confitures, and very good pork-butchers with fresh trouts...
cevennes.co.uk   (665 words)

  
 From A Cevennes Notebook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Cevennes vehicles are most often farm ones, square--flashing-light tractors, their drivers sticking up and out of them and looking down at you with some condescension.
A Cevennes farm roof with distinctive Lozere slates.
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote to his friend Sidney Colvin in the introduction to Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes: "Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it.
www.saraphina.com /opm/rgenn/from_a_cevennes_notebook.htm   (5203 words)

  
 Holiday village in Cevennes, France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
A special place in the museum is dedicated to the chestnut tree (called "breadtree" in the cevennes) and the mulberry tree (the "golden tree" of the silk breeding).
The steam locomotive of the cevennes brings you from St. Jean du Gard to Anduze and back.
Huguenot history and the important role of the Camisards in the cevennes.
www.cevennes-vacances.com /GB/tourism.HTM   (482 words)

  
 CEVENNES EVASION (Mountain biking)
The southern Lozère affords hundreds of kilometers of bike tracks and a wide range of different trips-day trips or longer, for either beginners or confirmed mountain bikers-is available.
Whether you choose to rent by the day or a fully planned six-day trip, you will experience the wide open spaces of the Cevennes National Park.
BI Six days of biking in the Cevennes National Park.
www.cevennes.net /cevennes_evasion.uk/randonnee_vtt.htm   (310 words)

  
 Saint Julien d'Arpaon in the Cevennes of Lozere
Saint Julien d'Arpaon in the Cevennes of Lozere
Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon in the Cevennes of Lozere, and the surrounding hamlets of Balazuegnes, Bouges, L'Hermet, Mijavols, Le Puychauzier and Ventajols
The Saint-Julien d'Arpaon district of Lozère comprises seven hamlets in the heart of the Cévennes National Park, in Camisard country.
www.les3tilleuls.com /en/area-cevennes.php   (171 words)

  
 Hiking Cevennes and Mont Lozere region
The Cevennes and the Mont Lozere are part of the Central Massive and consists
The Cevennes are an impressive succession of mountain crests and deep mysterious valleys.
The Mont Lozère and the Cevennes form, in short, the ideal region for those who love hiking, nature, history, traditions authenticity, silence, regional products or just laze about...
www.cevennes-mont-lozere.com /the-region.htm   (724 words)

  
 TRAVELER'S JOURNAL 2719 - STEVENSON IN THE CEVENNES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
He undertook a solitary, 120 mile trek through the Cevennes, a then wild range of mountains in south central France.
Although accompanied by his wife and brother, the author discovered a Cevennes not that dissimilar from the one Stevenson traversed.
Today's Cevennes still feels hushed and secluded, moorlike highlands dotted with orange roofed villages and quaintly ruined chateaus, a forgotten fragment of France.
www.travelersjournal.com /calendar/may02/30.html   (249 words)

  
 Cévennes on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Travel: Unearthing the secret Cevennes The countryside around your gite may look tranquil.
Travel: Lame excuse for suffering in Cevennes Nicholas Crane takes the wrong shoes for a gruelling trek along the old shepherd paths of southern France
Travel: Grand tours; Stevenson (and his donkey) survey `the Cevennes of the Cevennes'; The second in a series which follows the world's greatest writers through adventures in literature.(Features)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/cevennes.asp   (651 words)

  
 Cevennes
the route: The tour des Cevennes is a 135 km long footpath which starts and ends in Anduze.
Water wasn't a problem as there are a lot of taps on the road and in the Gites you can also get water.
There was a beautiful land with flowers and butterflies as Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) and Scarce Copper (Heodes virgaureae).
www.natureview.nl /hiking/cevennes.htm   (1088 words)

  
 Cevennes 6 - A chalet style family tent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
The Cevennes is a chalet style family tent.
There are two separate inner tents with a wardrobe space in between.
The Cevennes is made at the Marechal factory in the north of France and it meets the highest industry standards for this type of tent.
www.outdoor2go.co.uk /tents/cevennes_6.htm   (227 words)

  
 Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes - CHAPTER 11
Speaking largely, I was in the Cevennes at Monastier, and during all my journey; but there is a strict and local sense in which only this confused and shaggy country at my feet has any title to the name, and in this sense the peasantry employ the word.
These are the Cevennes with an emphasis: the Cevennes of the Cevennes.
In that undecipherable labyrinth of hills, a war of bandits, a war of wild beasts, raged for two years between the Grand Monarch with all his troops and marshals on the one hand, and a few thousand Protestant mountaineers upon the other.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/adventure/TravelswithaDonkeyintheCevennes/chap11.html   (1385 words)

  
 Hiking and walking in the Cevennes National Park (France)
Hiking is one of the best ways of discovering Nature and getting away from everyday life in magnificent surroundings.
The scenery around Florac is amazingly diverse, from the vast spaces of the Causses and the secret valleys of the Cevennes, to the cool forests of the Mont Aigoual and the bizarre granite formations of the Mont Lozère.
Florac is at the heart of the Cevennes National Park.
cevennes.net /cevennes_evasion.uk/randonnee_pedestre.htm   (274 words)

  
 Bed and breakfast and other meals in the Cevennes
"Au Portaou",a traditional farm in the hamlet Valcrouzès is situated in the Lozère, at the border of the Cevennes National park.
While arriving you will be surprised by our characteristic farmhouse in Cevennes style, with an inner court yard and stout stone stairs.
The rafters and flooring are made of honest chestnut timber with a soft gleam.
www.cevennes-mont-lozere.com /cevennes/default-en.htm   (610 words)

  
 Biking holiday in France: Spectacular Gorges and canyons in Grands Causses and Cevennes
The B04-tour is an "Active Vacation Tour" as well as a "Sportive Vacation Tour" with option of climbing the Mont Aigoual (1659m) in Cevennes mountains.
From there on you'll be heading upstream towards Lozère with its rough Gorges and steep, bare, 700m high cliff faces.
In the end you'll return, via picturesque Nant on the edge of the Cevennes and the Canyon de la Dourbie back to the starting place Millau.
www.valac.nl /dbdb04.htm   (283 words)

  
 Cevennes national park - Cevennes and Mont Lozere
The numerous rivers, lakes and barrages are ideal for fishing, swimming, canoe and even sailing..
The Cevennes have an altitude of between 300 and 900 meters, like the "Gorges du Tarn" and the "Gorges de la Jonte", with a Mediterranean climate.
Region Cevennes, Mont Lozère - bordering the Cevennes national park in the South of France
www.cevennes-mont-lozere.com /the-region-2.htm   (532 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
On a 12-day trek through the Cevennes, Stevenson's cross to bear was Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite get the better of.
After many humorous trials and tribulations, Stevenson found that his disdain for the creature had turned to love, and at the end of the trip he said goodbye with much regret.
Stevenson, before he became famous, depicted his journey in the cevennes, with his donkey "Modestine".
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1576466280   (326 words)

  
 Rural Lodges in the National Park of the Cevennes.
Rural Lodges in the National Park of the Cevennes.
In the heart of the Cevenol Forest, in the National parc of the Cevennes, lodges in a completely renovated building typical of the region, opening directly onto trekking paths.
You will discover the fauna and flora; and beautiful panoramas and landscapes will behold your eyes along your walks.
www.cevennes.com /bancilhon_uk.html   (422 words)

  
 rental country cottages in Lozere,cevennes,France
One country cottage is situated at the top of the village, where the sheep track begins, and is also by the river Rieumalet.(ref.GML 19)
The other cottages (ref.MCE 43) are situated by the river Tarn (1/2 hour from the Tarn gorges) at the foot of Mount Lozere (1700 m) in the heart of the Cevennes National Park.
This rural location is 500 m from Pont de Montvert village, this village has 3 bridges, and is of historical interest for it is where the Camisards war began in 1702.
www.cevennes-gites.com /index-angl.html   (190 words)

  
 NatureScene - options for tailor-made holidays of the CEVENNES and the NEW FOREST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
In all cases, each day will be spent exploring the countryside with one or two guides who have an intimate knowledge of the area, and will be able to introduce you to the most superb scenery and wild-life, without the constraints that a large tourist party usually imposes.
In the Cevennes, workshop facilities can be arranged in a former presbytery, built in the 18th century in traditional stone, with a wealth of history of its own.
Season:- The CEVENNES are at their most spectacular from mid May to mid June,internationally renowned for their abundance of orchids, with a rich backdrop of other plants, insects and birdlife.
www.naturescene.co.uk /holiday.htm   (845 words)

  
 Breakaway Adventures - Cevennes - Robert Louis Stevenson's Trail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
In the autumn of 1878, the Scots writer Robert Louis Stevenson, author of 'Treasure Island' and 'Kidnapped', set out from Le Monastier in the Auvergne to walk south across the Cevennes accompanied by "a small grey donkey called Modestine, the colour of a mouse with a kindly eye".
Stevenson should have put the Cevennes "on the map", but despite his account of his travels through this beautiful region, it remains little known.
Whilst the Cevennes always provide fairly rugged terrain, and the walk does cross two significant mountains, Mont du Goulet (1,497m) and Mont Lozere (1,699m), the walk itself is not unduly demanding.
www.breakaway-adventures.com /trip.cfm?trip=208   (302 words)

  
 South of France Property   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Pas de Soucy, a French country house in the Cevennes
Pas de Soucy is a French country house typical of the Cevennes, complete with roman tile roof and stone terraces.
It is a 10 hectares (25 acres) property located 61 kilometers to the north-west of Nimes, and approximately 65 kilometers (40 miles) upriver from the Pont du Gard.
www.fabuloussfproperty.com /id7.html   (674 words)

  
 La Corconne-juin2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Een sfeervolle, in de Cevennes gelegen camping, op natuurlijke wijze in het landschap aangelegd.
Unspoilt campsite located in the Cevennes, naturally integrated in the wooded landscape, with a nice atmosphere.
Excellent swimming in the clean water of the river l'Herault.
www.lacorconne.com   (211 words)

  
 Welcome Steam train of Cevennes Gard 30 Wonders of Nature Dir. tourinfos
Welcome Steam train of Cevennes Gard 30 Wonders of Nature Dir.
A whistle, a jet of steam and the locomotive moves off to rush into a long tunnel.
In that way starts, in opened wagons or in the ancient comfort of the former elegant cars, a journey of 13 kilometres between Saint-Jean-du-Gard and Anduze, plenty in the middle of the region Cevennes.
www.tourinfos.com /gb/r0011/d0030/m0001/j0024/p000279.htm   (137 words)

  
 The Les Trois Tilleuls Farm in St-Julien d'Arpaon, in the Cevennes of Lozere
The Les Trois Tilleuls Farm in St-Julien d'Arpaon, in the Cevennes of Lozere
Mathilde and Vartan welcome you at the Les Trois Tilleuls Farm, in Saint-Julien d'Arpaon, near Florac, in the Cevennes National Park in Lozere
On their XVIIth century estate above the Mimente valley, almost 2,000 feet above sea level, in a splendid setting planted with massive several-hundred-year-old trees...
www.les3tilleuls.com /en/estate-cevennes.php   (208 words)

  
 Travel in Cevennes
On either side of the Cevennes Ledge, along the valleys where the Gardon rivers run, the Cevennes hills have kept their typical features with numerous grand natural sites.
Don't miss the nearby Trabuc Caves, the Bamboo Forest at Anduze and the picturesque Little Train at St jean du Gard.The Templars'village called "La Couvertoirade" is a must.
In the Cevennes, Hiking, mountain-biking, fishing, caving, all bring you next to a rich cultural heritage wherever you go.
perso.wanadoo.fr /bernard.haegeli/gites/travel/tourism/ecevenne.html   (138 words)

  
 The Valmalle Gite - Cevennes - French Riviera
At St Jean du Gard turn right and follow the D 984 up a wild valley to St Germain de Calberte and then Valmalle.
Jean-Paul and Babeth have been living in the Cevennes since 1981 and know the area well.
They will be delighted to advise you about exploring the beautiful Cevennes or to tell you about its history.
www.cevennes.com /valmalle/index_uk.html   (628 words)

  
 Stevenson (1969) An inland voyage: Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes
Stevenson (1969) An inland voyage: Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes
An inland voyage: Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes
To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box.
www.getcited.org /?PUB=101559339&showStat=Ratings   (105 words)

  
 Cevennes foothils in Gard Provencal
In this region, the foothills of the Cévennes rise gently to embrace the Mediterranean sun.
Click on the map to see the villages and sites in the "Cevennes foothills".
To stop or stay in the "Cevennes foothills" ::
www.gard-provencal.com /an/pays/cevennes.htm   (94 words)

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