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Presentation Le Bousquet d'Orb Camplong Graissessac Saint Etienne Estréchoux Saint Geniès de Varensal Saint Gervais sur Mare La Tour sur Orb Things to see

Le Bousquet d'Orb : Cazilhac Castle (12th century), historical village streets, giant Miner's Lamp monument.

Camplong : St. Sauveur Chapel (16th century), Visigoth cemetery, Monts d'Orb Arboretum, calamite trunk

Graissessac : Remains of former mining activity (gallery entrances, stack), Palène Rock Face, paleontological and botanical site, sécadous (huts for drying chestnuts), botanical gardens.

St Etienne d'Estréchoux : Former limekilns and orchards

Saint Gervais sur Mare : "Three-teeth Bridge" (le Pont des Trois Dents), cobbled streets ("les ruelles caladées"), Quartier Pioch (historical town centre), Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs (Chapel of the White Penitents, animated Nativity scene Dec.-Feb.) Chapelle Notre-Dame de Lorette (Our Lady of Lorette Chapel), ruins of Neyran Castle, Maison Cévenole (art gallery and local heritage museum)

La Tour sur Orb : Mediaeval village of Boussagues 12th-17th century, residence of the Abbots of Joncel, St. Xist Priory, Boubals Chapel, 11th century, Chapels and Churches tour.
Early Romanesque chapel - Boubals
St. Martin's Church - Clairac

Saint Géniès de Varensal : Falaises et grottes, autour du village.