Being classified among the most beautiful villages of France, Minerve is an impressive mixture of historical relics of the past and of natural beauty. Its history is indeed impressive...Minerve is located on a lonely and small plateau, which dominates the Valley of Briant.
Don't miss to visit all what follows :
Museum of Archaeology and Palaeontology : fossils dating from 600 million years, prehistoric objects, roman documents and Visigoth documents.

Haurepel museum : historical restoration of the Catarrh epic in the form of dioramas (staged figurines being in sets and historic sites, all this of course in a small scale.
In the Romanic Saint-Etienne church, a table made of white marble has got hundred of graffiti. The church had been consecrated by the Bishop Rustic Saint in 456.
Still in this church there is The house of the Perfects (as were called Catarrh priests) and the La Porte des Templiers that is to say the door of Knights Templars of the XIII-th century.
The octagonal tower, called the "Candela", is the last relic of the past of the castle and its fortifications, dates of the middle of the XIII-th century.
there are also two natural bridges, pierced by waters at the beginning of the Quaternary period ; the biggest one shapes nowadays a tunnel of 250 m long and 30 m high.

Credit photo : UDOTSI (notebook "L' Hérault Insolite")