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Nice place with an old tower and a winding old town on the mountain.

Village quite squeezed in by the N88 and N106.

This town has the particularity of having on its land many megaliths from the Neolithic era, mainly dolmens. Chanac also has a magnificent keep which dates from the 13th century. A red and gold Occitan flag flies at its top. You can't miss it! Inquire at the town hall of the village for more details.

Balsièges is a small town which is part of the Cévennes. The granite cliffs of Barjac which are on the territory of the municipality as well as the causses of Blanquets are two remarkable sites labeled Natura 2000.

Marvejols is a medieval city that illustrates Occitan culture. It was a fortified city which was reinforced during the Hundred Years War against the English.

Small road that starts on the side of the cliff then passes through the forests to finish on the plateau. We take full eyes!

On the Causse de Mende, above the town, there are two villages which were sold to the State by their last inhabitants in 1905: Gerbal and La Chaumette. At this date, there remains an inhabitant in Gerbal and a family in La Chaumette. We are far from the fifteen families who lived here at the beginning of the 19th century. These villages lived off the breeding of sheep and the cultivation of wheat. But from the 16th century, the demand for wool exploded in Europe. The herds are growing, which leads to the deforestation of more and more areas and the exhaustion of land. It is therefore depleted and leached land which is ceded to the State, which establishes the current forest there. Of these villages there remain the ruins of the dwellings, with the exception of a Chaumette complex restored by the ONF in the 1960s. These houses, entirely in limestone, are models of the Caussenard habitat. The main building has two levels, ground floor housing and the floor dedicated to storage, is accompanied by a sheepfold surmounted by its barn. All of these constructions are made of stone, there is no wood of sufficient quality and size or at too high a cost. There were only two villages because there are only two sources of water, which had to supplement several cisterns and lavognes (artificial pond to water the cattle).