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Amusements and things to do in the Languedoc-Roussillon Region in the South of France. Between Provence and the Pyrénées, the Languedoc-Roussillon Region has mountains and Mediterranean beaches, and borders Spain.
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Agde - Hérault (34300)
20 km southeast of Beziers; 25 km southwest of Sète.
Santons du Monde Museum - Musée Santons du Monde
A display of over 2000 santons of Provence, in a 17th-century building.
Location:
2 Ave de Vias (across from the Cathedral St-Etienne, on the banks of the Hérault)
Open: Daily, July-Aug: 10h-20h; Sept-June: 14h-18h30
Closed: January 1st Entry: €5.70
Email: santonsdumonde@wanadoo.fr
Web: www.santonsdumonde.com
Anduze - Gard (30140)
12 km southwest of Alès; 12 km southeast of Saint Jean-du-Gard
Music Museum - Musée de la Musique
A thousand musical instruments from around the world.
Location:
4 Montée d'Alès
Open: July-Aug: 7-days, 10h30-13h, 15h-18h30; School Vacations 14h30-18h
Sun and holidays all year (except 25 Dec): 14h30-18h
Closed: Jan-Feb Tel: 0466 618 660; Fax: 0466 617 951
Email: contact@musee-musique.com
Web: www.musee-musique.com
This large private collection is in the heart of a Medieval village, on a shady site beside the river.
Steam Train of the Cévennes - Train à Vapeur des Cévennes
This 40-minute steam train between Saint Jean-du-Gard and Anduze follows the magnificent forested valleys for 13 km along the Gardon river in the heart of the Cévennes.
Open: March: selected days; April-early Sept: daily; Sept to beginning Nov: daily except Monday. 3-4 trains a day. Check with their website (below) for details.
Entry: €9 one-way; €12 round-trip; dogs and bicycles €3.
Tel: 0466 605 900; Fax: 0466 605 909
Web: www.citev.com
Special event trains every year: Wine Harvest in Sept; Chestnut day in Oct; Halloween Weekend; Fireworks night train 13 July, etc.
Arpaillargues-et-Aureillac - Gard (30700)
4 km west of Uzès; 22 km north of Nîmes; 43 km west of Avignon.
Toys Museum - Musée du Jouet
Teddy Bears, porcelaine dolls from the 1880's. Large (O-scale) model railway, 160 square meters.
Location:
Moulin de Chalier
Open: Feb: school vacation days. Mar-June, Sept-Oct: daily except Mondays 10h-12, 14-19h.
July-Aug: 7 days, 10h-19h
Closed: Mondays (Open Easter Monday); January Entry: 7 € adult; Family rates
Tel: 0466 225 865
Web: www.jouetmusee.com
Beaucaire - Gard (30300)
Across the river from Tarascon; midway between Avignon (27 km), Nimes (22 km) and Arles (22 km).
Les Aigles de Beaucaire
Spectacle with large birds of prey in free flight, at the ancient fortress Chateau de Beaucaire. Afternoons, 20 March to end October.
Location:
11, Rue du Courrier
Open: 24 Mar--1 Nov, daily except Wed, 15h, 16h, 17h, 18h.
all school holidays.
Tel: 0466 592 672; Fax: 04 66 59 50 74
Web: www.aigles-de-beaucaire.com
Le Cap d'Agde - Hérault (34300)
Cap d'Agde is the beach-area of the town of Agde. - 20 km east of Béziers; 50 km southwest of Montpellier.
Aquland Cap d'Agde
The first aquatic park created in Europe, and the best known.
Location:
BP 666
Tel: 0467 268 594; Fax: 04.67.26.51.20
Email: aqualand.capdagde@aqualand.fr
Web: www.aqualand.fr/les-parcs,cap_d_agde.html
Ganges - Hérault (34190)
13 km west of Saint Hippolyte-du-Fort; 45 km north of Montpellier.
Grotte des Demoiselles
Underground caverns, one called the Subterranean Cathedral, and equiped with Europe's first underground funiculaire (tram).
Open: All year. Guided Visits every hour, beginning at 10h. Nov-Feb and Mar-Oct, closed from 12h-14h. July-Aug, continuous starts for the 1-hr visit.
Entry: 8.80 € (2009)
Web: www.demoiselles.fr
3 stars in the Michelin Green Guide, Languedoc-roussillon.
Le Grau-du-Roi - Gard (30240)
Seaside, 6 km southwest of Aogies-Mortes; 25 km southeast of Montpellier.
Seaquarium
Includes: Jewels of the Coral Reef, The Shark Tunnel, Children's Trail, Multimedia room.
Open: All year. Hours Oct-Apr: 10h-19h
Entry: €10.30; Ages 5-14: €7.30.
Tel: 0466 515 737
Email: contact@seaquarium.fr
Web: www.seaquarium.fr
Lézan - Gard (30350)
15 km south of Alès; 30 km northwest of Nîmes.
Doll and Teddybear Museum - Musée des Poupées et Nounours
A thousand teddybears, dolls and ancient toys are presented in a 12th-century house.
Location:
4 Rue de l'Estrangladou
Open: 14 July - 31 Aug: 7-days, 12h30-18h30; Sept - 13 July: Sat-Sun, 15h-18h, or by rendez-vous.
Tel: 0455 831 957
Email: myoldbear@free.fr
Web: myoldbear.free.fr
Mialet - Gard (30140)
12 km west of Alès; 5 km east of St Jean-du-Gard.
Desert Period Museum - Musée du Désert
An historical museum for the "Desert" period of 1685-1787 in the Huguenot past of the Cevennes. From the Edict of Nantes to the Edict of Tolerance, the Camisards war, the persecutions and the resistance, up to the French Revolution.
Location:
Mas Soubeyran
Open: Mar-Nov: daily, 9h30-12h, 14h-18h; 1 July - 1st Sunday Sept: 9h30-19h.
Tel: 0466 850 272; Fax: 0466 850 002
Web: museedudesert.com
Free circulation or 1-hour comentary visit.
Notre-Dame-de-la-Rouvière - Gard (30570)
Small village in the Cévennes National Park. - 30 km southwest of Alès; 12 km north of Ganges.
International Postman Museum - Musée international du Facteuo Facteur
A collection of postal uniforms, hats, letter boxes, bicycles and other postal objects from 130 countries around the world. Collected with 20 years of research by to postmen.
Location:
In the village.
Open: July-August: daily, 10h0-12h, 15h-19h; Sept-June: 14h-17h30 (phone to make sure).
Tel: 0467 812 038
Web: www,augoual-cevennes.com
The museum belongs to the Community of Communes de L'Aigoual; maintained by the Office de Tourisme of the Canton de Valleraugue Mont-Aigoual.
Port Leucate - Aude (11370)
Seaside part of the commune of Leucate. - 35 km northeast of Perpignan; 35 km south of Narbonne.
Aquland Port Leucate
A kingdom dedicated to the kids, close to the stations of Leucate and Barcarès.
Location:
Av. du roussillon
Tel: 0468 409 998; Fax: 04.68.40.83.78
Email: aqualand.portleucate@aqualand.fr
Web: www.aqualand.fr/les-parcs,port_leucate.html
Saint Cyprien - Pyrénées-Orientales (66750)
Seaside town 15 km southeast of Perpignan.
Aquland Saint Cyprien
8 Hectares of attractions on the Atlantic coast. The Aqualand parks are full-fleged theme parks
Location:
Mas des capellans
Open: Every day 6 June - 6 Sept;
20 June - 5 July, 30 Aug 6 Sept 10h-18h; 6 July - 30 Aug: 10h-19h
Entry: (2009) €24.50. Season pass all Aqualands, 1 person: €79
Tel: 0468 214 949; Fax: 04.68.21.15.47
Email: aqualand.stcyprien@aqualand.fr
Web: www.aqualand.fr/les-parcs,saint_cyprien.html
Largest aqupark of the Cote d'Azur, water slides of all sizes and types. Mini-golfs. Pedalos. Attractions and activities.
Saint Hippolyte-du-Fort - Gard (30170)
30 km southwest of Alès; 15 km east of Ganges.
Firemens Museum - Musée du Sapeur Pompier
Ancient fire trucks and old uniforms, dioramas and miniature vehicules. Everything for the world of firemen.
Location:
Espace Marti-Ducros,; Place des Casernes
Open: 1 June - 14 Oct: Wed-Mon (not Tue);
15 Oct - 31 May: Sat-Sun. Times 10h-12h, 14h-17h30
Closed: 25 Dec, 1 Jan Entry: €4.50
Tel: 0466 779 986; Fax: 0466 77 99 86
Email: msp30@wanadoo.fr
Web: www.msp30.fr.st
Silk Museum - Musée de la Soie
Silk-Making museum and workshop, focused on the silk-making industry of the Cevennes in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Open: 1 Apr - 30 Nov: 10h-12h30, 14h-18h Tue-Sun (closed Mon except for holidays)
3 July - 27 Aug: 7-days, 10h-12h30, 14h-18h
Guided tours in English on Wednesday, 11h30, during June - Sept.
Tel: 0466 776 647; Fax: 0466 77 66 47
Email: museedelasoie@hotmail.com
Saint Jean-du-Gard - Gard (30270)
Robert Lewis Stevenson completed his Travels with a Donkey here, in 1878. - 15 km west of Alès; 10 km northwest of Anduze; 6 km southeast of Saint Etienne-Vallée-Française.
Cévenoles Valley Museum - Musée des Vallée Cévenoles de St-Jean-du-Gard
From chestnuts to silk. Located in a 17th-century inn, the museum is dedicated to people's arts and traditions, and deals with the history and the Cevenol Culture. Important to the development was the chestnut tree an silkworm breeding.
Location:
95 Grand-Rue
Open: July-Aug: daily, 10h-19h; Apr-Oct: daily, 10h-12h, 14h-19h;
Nov-Mar: Tue, Thur 9h-12h, 14h-18h; Sun 14h-18
Tel: 0466 851 048; Fax: 0466 851 361
Email: valceven@wanadoo.fr
Web: www.museedescevennes.com
Steam Train of the Cévennes - Train à Vapeur des Cévennes
This 40-minute steam train between Saint Jean-du-Gard and Anduze follows the magnificent forested valleys for 13 km along the Gardon river in the heart of the Cévennes.
Open: March: selected days; April-early Sept: daily; Sept to beginning Nov: daily except Monday. 3-4 trains a day. Check with their website (below) for details.
Entry: €9 one-way; €12 round-trip; dogs and bicycles €3.
Tel: 0466 605 900; Fax: 0466 605 909
Web: www.citev.com
Special event trains every year: Wine Harvest in Sept; Chestnut day in Oct; Halloween Weekend; Fireworks night train 13 July, etc.
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