With over 300 days of sun each year and the longest, sandy Mediterranean coast-line, Languedoc, or more correctly the region the Languedoc Roussillon, deserves its popularity as a holiday and retirement destination.
Mediterranean beaches - Marseillan Plage Languedoc
With mountains and gorges (RL Stevenson’s ” Travels on a Donkey ” took place in our Cevennes mountains), rivers like the Herault and the Orb and the Aude, extinct volcanoes, man made marvels like Carcassonne, Aigue Mortes and La Grande Motte, tour region can justly claim to be one of Europe’s jewels.
Once Languedoc was a lost corner of Europe, lost in time for hundreds of years, today you can explore this history in the many medieval streets and passages of villages and towns which it seems time has forgot, perhaps lost for a few centuries, but not forgotten. Languedoc has been the source of many arts and traditions and has many claims as the fount of Western civilization.