Agde, city
with Mediterranean notes and scents, with its grounds
dedicated to the vine, its “garrigue”,
its ponds and the softness of its climate. You are in
a real paradise of actives holidays: sport, culture,
leisure, spa, parties are offered to you in an exceptional
setting.
You want to bathe you? To bronze peacefully with the
sun ? 14 kms of beach are waiting you !
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To
see : museum
of Ephèbe (museum archaeological subaqueous),
fort brescou, the city (fountains, places, statues,
ice cave, cathedral etc).
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To
taste : mussel and
stuffed squids, clams cooked with white wine
and shallot, Honey of garrigue, dried figs,
oysters of Thau, Muscat wine of Frontignan,
Picpoul (regional wine).
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To
know : the
statue of Ephèbe, vestige of the Hellenist
age, was brought back of Herault in 1964 and
it classify historic monument.
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Very
Favourite : museum
agathois (discovery of the popular arts and
customs– fishing –sailing– terrestrial
and subaqueous archaeology …).
On
the channel of the Rhone with Sète :
On a hundred
kilometres, the channel of the Rhone with Sète
crosses Languedoc and the Petite Camargue to reach
the doors of Provence.
Links between the channel of the South and the inland
waterways of South-east.
The channels of the ponds, completed by the channel of
Beaucaire, form today the channel of the Rhone with Sète,
which connects the pond of Thau and Sète, in Beaucaire.
On
the channel of the South :
Built at the
XVIIe century by Pierre-Paul Riquet with his famous
round locks, classified «wonder of the
world" by the UNESCO in 1996.
True hydrolic museum, on the channel of the South combine
variety of the sites and cultural richness. 240 kilometres
length of Toulouse to the pond of Thau, it counts 64
locks, 55 aqueducts, 7 bridges - channels and 126 bridges.
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Agde : |
Mini
week
- Agde
- Aigues Mortes - Agde : 140 kms - 4 locks
- 20 hours
- Agde
-Capestang - Agde : 104 kms - 22 locks -
20 hours
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One
week
- Agde
- Homps - Agde : 160 kms - 34 locks - 28
hours
- Agde
- Narbonne - Agde : 144 kms - 30 locks -
25 hours
- Agde
- Saint Gilles - Agde : 196 kms - 4 locks
- 26 hours
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Two
weeks
- Agde
- Carcassone - Agde : 250 kms - 72 locks
- 50 hours
- Agde
- Beaucaire - Agde : 246 kms - 6 locks -
40 hours
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Three
weeks and more
- Agde
- Castelnaudary - Agde : 330 kms - 118 locks
- 75 hours
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