My city is a hamlet that some maps and GPS have forgotten to indicate in their route and their memory, so you will have to look at Allegre Les Fumades. This evil in disguise makes it a small gem characterized by calm and the absence of many modern stress-inducing nuisances. The environment is green, the vegetation abundant, the climate temperate, and life flows to the rhythm of the seasons.

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Located in the north of the Gard department in Basse Cévennes, the hamlet of Auzon is 2 km from the Gallo-Roman spa Les Fumades Les Bains and its casino, themselves part of the town of Allegre Les Fumades . You will enjoy the pleasures of the spa and its sulphurous waters which offers medical cures but also well-being treatments: spa, thalassotherapy, massage, hydromassage bath, pressotherapy, hammam, sauna, body care and routine aesthetic treatments...

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In the surroundings you will practice a multitude of outdoor activities such as: mountain biking, fishing, hiking and horse riding, canoeing, tennis, petanque, mushroom picking, visits to historical and medieval places, such as the ruins of the castle of Allegre dating of the 12th century or even the Chapel of Saint Saturnin...

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Our region experienced its hour of glory in the 18th century with the production and sale of silk. These numerous magnaneries (breeding grounds), have often been transformed into prestigious farmhouses of great beauty and construction surrounded by numerous mulberry trees from which the leaves that fed the silkworms were extracted. Today, more than 2 centuries after this period, our region has developed around tourism activities combining a first-rate landscape environment and a relaxed way of life that follows the rhythms of the seasons. The local products are numerous and celebrated at the height of the pleasures they provide us.

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You will take part in the fig festival in Vézénobres, a village built on the mountainside where Mick Jagger bought a house in 1978, according to the locals.

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The truffle festival in January in Uzès, a town which holds the title of "1st Duchy of France". The castle remains today the residence of the ducal family for more than a millennium. It was in Uzès that Racine wrote this famous verse "And we have nights more beautiful than your days"

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But also the chestnut festival in many villages of the region, even if it is in Saint Jean du Gard that it is celebrated as the not forbidden fruit.

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Bring back a Zen moment from the Bamboo Garden of Anduze in which you will walk in the middle of century-old trees at dizzying heights, visit the Laotian village and the rice granary and let yourself be enchanted by the flowery greenhouses.

Take the time to visit the Pont du Gard, with its aqueduct, which was used to carry water from the springs to the city of Nîmes. And if you are here in June, do not miss the sound and light broadcast on the walls of the bridge overhanging at more than 40 m high the river at the edge of which you will have settled down for a show where the magic will take you through the millennia. to the sound of captivating music.

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In Avignon, a city listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which houses the Palais des Papes, and its medieval ramparts that surround it like eternal protection, go and see the bridge where everyone dances in circles. If you are with us in July, don't forget to note in your diary the "Grand" Festival of Theater created in 1947 by Jean Vilar and which gives this city of Avignon an international cultural influence, where all the actors of the theater come together during the Festival.

Also discover Nîmes or "French Rome", the city of seven hills, its Arenas, its Magne tower and its Maison Carré.

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You like caves, book a day for that of La Cocalière. Take the time to stroll through our magnificent villages nestled on the mountains and qualified as the most beautiful in France such as: Aiguèze perched on a cliff overlooking the Ardèche gorges, Fons-sur-Lussan built on a rock where you can admire one of the few planted menhirs in the Gard classified since 1910 or even La Roque-sur-Cèze considered the most beautiful village in France and on the way back, go swimming in the famous Sautadet waterfalls.

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After such visits, you will return amazed at so much beauty and there in the heart of our hamlet in your charming cottage you will dream of an even richer tomorrow.