Olivettes Dam – Tiberet Ruins loop from Vailhan

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Olivettes Dam – Tiberet Ruins loop from Vailhan

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Olivettes Dam – Tiberet Ruins loop from Vailhan

03:40

12.6km

340m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 7, 2026

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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448 m

Olivettes Dam

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This reservoir was built in the late 1980s to control and regulate the fluctuating masses of the Herault River.

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5.42 km

Lauriol Hamlet

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Rather a collection of farmhouses than a village. You can also rent a bigger house here, which at the moment has been made by a musician from Freiburg. They play …

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6.55 km

Tiberet Ruins

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The ruins of Tiberet are still so well preserved that you can still see the functions of each building. There was a church and a mill with a miller here. The buildings date back to the 12th century.

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9.73 km

Beautiful capitelle and magnificent view of Mont Vissous

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A Capitelle is a dry stone hut, that is to say without mortar, formerly serving as temporary shelter for small owners, their tools and their agricultural products in the old scrubland.

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9.84 km

Discreet in the scrubland, the capitelle des Louvières recalls the ancient occupation of these hills. Built of dry stone, it blends into the landscape as a silent marker of the old agricultural uses of this territory between Cabrières and Vailhan.

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10.4 km

Col des Trois Pierriers

Mountain Pass

11.0 km

Statue of the Virgin Mary

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12.1 km

Vailhan

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small village at the foot of the mountains. Excellent for launches of hikes. Small disadvantage: hardly any reception!

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12.6 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

8.37 km

3.48 km

657 m

118 m

Surfaces

7.58 km

4.18 km

657 m

118 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (340 m)

Lowest point (160 m)

Weather

Friday 16 October

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Comments

September 12, 2024,🇫🇷Herault - Vailhan, Ruines de Tiberet

From Vailhan you can take a number of hiking trails, all of which are quite pretty and easy to walk. Although not very spectacular, they always reveal the (sometimes harsh) beauty of the region with its own flora and fauna, the crumbling stone houses along the way that bear witness to times gone by, and the hameaus that you pass …

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