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accommodation, some of today divided between Spain
them in local styles. and France. Its high plateaux
Did You Know? La Grande-Motte marina provide superb winter skiing
has distinctive ziggurat-style and summertime walking
The Golfe du Lion build ings, Cap d’Agde has among clear mountain lakes
got its name from Europe’s largest naturist and pine and chestnut forests.
the roaring gales quarter and, inland, Agde The Little Yellow Train (www.
that often batter is built of black basalt and ter.sncf.com), one of the most
has a fortified cathe dral. Port
scenic routes in France, which
this area.
EXPERIENCE Languedoc and Roussillon 22 The étangs, large shallow excel lent way to sample it in a
Leucate and Port Bacarès are
has been running since 1909
ideal for water sports. An
and includes the country’s
older town is Sète (p484).
highest railway station, is an
lagoons near to the Camargue
day. Stops include Mont Louis,
Golfe du Lion
region, support thousands
a town fortified by Vauban,
Louis XIV’s military architect,
of wading birds.
! E6 ⌂ Aude, Hérault
and which still accom modates
k £ @ Montpel lier
French troops; the huge ski
g Sète n 55 rue du Port,
resort of Font-Romeu; and
23
La Grande-Motte; www.
Latour-de-Carol and the tiny
lagrandemotte.com
Cerdagne
Part of a lagoon complex,
Nearby Odeillo is the site
of a solar furnace, the world’s
Languedoc and Roussillon’s
Orientales k Perpignan
largest at 45 m (150 ft) tall
shoreline forms an almost
£ @ Mont Louis, Bourg
and 50 m (165 ft) wide – its
unbroken sweep of sandy ! D7 ⌂ Pyrénées- village of Yravals below it.
Madame, Latour de Carol
beach. Only at its south ern Enveitg n 1 pl de Roser, giant curved mirrors create a
limits does it break into the Saillagouse; Mont Louis; remark able sight in the valley.
rocky inlets that punctuate www.pyrenees-cerdagne. Built in the 1960s, it is used for
the Côte Vermeille. Several com or www.mont-louis.net scientific research and to test
resorts have been created various materials at extremely
since the 1960s, with a strong The remote Cerdagne, which high temperatures. There’s
emphasis on environmentally was an inde pen dent state an information centre onsite
friendly, low-rise family during the Middle Ages, is for visitors.

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