Small village
of hardly 600 inhabitants, Homps is an old village
gallo roman, located on the channel of the
South in edge of Minervois and the wine soil of “the
Double Money”.
After having eaten good products of the soil in small
restaurant of the village, you will leave to discover
the vestiges of the castle of the knights Malta and the
Romance church of St Etienne and you will adventure in
the city cathare of Minerve, surrounded by canyons which
will offer many possibilities of excursions to you..
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To
see : vestiges
of the castle of the knights of Malta, the church
St Etienne, Carcassonne.
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To
taste : Red,
white wine and rosy AOC Minervois, cassoulet,
duck
sauté au fitou, bread of the country
cathare, mussel, oysters.
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To
know : Homps
is with only 33km far away from the city of
Carcassonne..
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Very
Favourite : the
picturesque village of Minerve.
On
the channel of the Rhone to Sète :
On a hundred
kilometres, the channel of the Rhone to Sète crosses Languedoc and the Petite Camargue
to reach the doors of Provence. Link between the channel
of the South and the inland waterways of South-east.
The channel of the Ponds, supplemented by the channel
of Beaucaire, forms today the channel of the Rhone to
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
Homps : |
Mini-
week
- Homps
- Carcassonne - Homps : 72 kms - 42 locks
- 20 hours
- Homps
- Béziers - Homps : 118 kms - 8 locks
- 17 hours
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One
week
- Homps
- Marseillan - Homps : 188 kms - 34 locks
- 25 hours
- Homps
- Bram - Homps : 130 kms - 54 locks - 35
hours
- Homps
- Narbonne - Homps : 72 kms - 30 locks -
14 hours
- One
way Homps - Carnon : 140 km - 17 locks -
25 hours
|
Two
weeks
- Homps
- Toulouse - Homps : 280 kms - 86 locks -
70 hours
- One
way Homps - Carnon : 276 km - 26 locks -
39 hours
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France
Passion Plaisance - Homps Base Information
