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Bicycle Rentals around Caunes 1. Velocation HOMPS tel: 06 37 07 05 00 Tarifs: 1h 5€ ½ day 15€ 1 day 25€
2. Cycles de Minervois, PEPIEUX tel : 04 68 91 69 50 Tarifs : ½ day 10€ 1 day 15€
3. Le Rivasel Restuarant, LA REDORTE tel : 04 68 32 35 90 Tarifs : 1 hour 5€ ½ day 12€ 1 day 20€ 1 week 80€
4. Location de vélos TREBES tel: 04 68 78 68 81/06 88 06 54 26 Tarifs : 1 hour 5€ ½ day 10€ 1 day 15€ 1 week 75€
5. Location VTC et VTT, Vin en Vacances is a vineyard tour company run by Wendy Gedney an English woman with a passion for this wonderful area and its wines. Wendy is a wine teacher and during the tours not only will you have a thoroughly enjoyable day, you will also learn a great deal about wine and tasting. Her aim is to provide you with an experience that you can’t easily create for There is a range of marked walks into the foothills of the Montagne Noir starting and ending in Caunes. They range from a short stroll up to the marble quarries (if you elect to drive up the Allées des Carrières and park) to a considerable hike up to the village of Citou and back. Plans of these walks, provided by the local authorities, can be found on a notice board opposite the school and on the edge of the small
The official details of the four tours have disappeared, so we have constructed our interpretations of Tours 3 and 4, and these are given below. Tour 1, essentially a wine tour, could include almost every village in the Minervois because Caves and Chateaux are thick on the ground throughout this region. Tour 2 was designed, we presume, to encompass churches and perhaps prehistoric monuments; this is a work in progress. Tour No. 3: Olives & Muscat..read moreThere are two guide books for your use while here and the Tourist Information office is located in the Abbey down behind the house past the Town Hall (Mairie). Inside the Abbey entrance local tourism information is available with many brochures detailing various aspects of local interest. The following is the map page of one such brochure that lays out ; it also clearly shows the central position of Caunes and its relationship with surrounding villages. There are also The Languedoc, as it name suggests, was not a core region of the original France. Prior to the 13th century the inhabitants of this region spoke the Language of Occitania — Occitan — the langue d’oc. As in adjacent Catalonia (the Catalan-speaking area of Spain), many road signs and town names have the local version of the name alongside the national one. Occitan was very similar to Catalan.
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