Snuggled up in the heart of the massif of Cevennes, at one o'clock of the beaches of the Mediterranean Sea, the canton of Saint-Jean-du-Gard offers an authentic and protected environment.

This natural patrimony is inextricable of the cultural patrimony because Serres and Valats is profoundly marked by the history of the men(people) who lived there painful years on the war of camisards.

Here, every "bancel" testifies of a rough rural life where the farmer sculptured his efforts in the side of valleys : the tree " in bread" or sweet chestnut tree, the named(appointed) good, tree of the poor lands which fed its generations, hives dug in the trunks of the wood, and finally "the golden tree", the mulberry tree, which allowed the culture of the worm to one and enriches during some years the local population.

Besides the discovery of these cultural wealth, it is necessary to dare to venture on foot, on horseback, in mountain bike on paths marked out by PR or GR on the meeting panoramas to cut the breath, the Romanic chapels set in their small valleys, snakes of crystal clear water of the Roaches of which the discreet beaches wait for you.

Here, far from the noise and from the fury of the city, you will taste the charm if private individual of the rural tourism in passing activity or lazy holidays, as check will seem to you.

For any information or demand of documentation, please, contact the Office of Saint-Jean-du-Gard's tourism.

Credit text and photos : plaque "Saint-Jean-du-Gard and its Canton" Office of Saint-Jean-du-Gard's tourism