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Other Bases in the South of France : Carnon - Carcassonne - Homps

Agde in the Center of a World of Holidays

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 !

  • To see : museum of Ephèbe (museum archaeological subaqueous), fort brescou, the city (fountains, places, statues, ice cave, cathedral etc).
  • 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).
  • To know : the statue of Ephèbe, vestige of the Hellenist age, was brought back of Herault in 1964 and it classify historic monument.
  • 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.

From Agde : 

Mini week

  • Agde - Aigues Mortes - Agde : 140 kms - 4 locks - 20 hours
  • Agde -Capestang - Agde : 104 kms - 22 locks - 20 hours

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

Two weeks

  • Agde - Carcassone - Agde : 250 kms - 72 locks - 50 hours
  • Agde - Beaucaire - Agde : 246 kms - 6 locks - 40 hours

Three weeks and more

  • Agde - Castelnaudary - Agde : 330 kms - 118 locks - 75 hours
 

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