Languedoc-Roussillon

A large region, great moments

Only One twentieth of France and yet Languedoc-Roussillon concentrates, in the multiple soils which make it up, an incredible diversity, reflection of the richness of its inheritance.


Here, one can choose his holidays "à la carte", so much this destination abounds in surprising discoveries: immense virgin littoral, preserved natural spaces, towns of art and history, alleviating countryside and tonic mountain.
Visiting the countryside to discover a nature hot and cordial, secret and crowned, bucolic but always near to man. One can live far from the crowd of the littoral and stroll in peaceful villages with there preserved inheritances.

Whether your step is that of  well deserved relaxation, in the middle of seaside resorts or on the Canal du Midi, that of active and sporting tourism, and why not gastronomical, and even curative, Languedoc Roussillon, faithful to its tradition   , offers you throughout the year, its large grounds bathing in sun, opened on the Mediterranean sea .
·  300 days of sun per annum.
·  220 km of beach.
·  The largest vineyard of the world.

Avast amphitheater on the Mediterranean, with its soft and sunny climate, the Languedoc-Roussillon area is characterized by an extreme variety and a richness of sites of quality:

• 220 km of coasts, with a rocky and wild coastline covering 180km, with fine sandy beaches,
• A vast littoral plain,from the Rhone to the Pyrenees, where villages and cities share a rich historical and cultural inheritance and a modernized and dynamic agriculture,
• A stage of hills and garrigues, with the staged slopes favourable with the culture of the vineyards and olive-trees, sharing many coastal rivers and rivers descending from the close mountains,
• The mountains: the Massif Central to the north, with varied sites (Aubrac, Margeride, the Cevennes and Grands Causses), and the Pyrenees to the south, with its high tops and its winter sports resorts.
  

Located in the heart of the Mediterranean arc, the Languedoc Roussillon area saw a double dynamics of European integration and co-operation with the Mediterranean basin. The Languedoc-Roussillon area is at the same time a way of passage - of European level - and an open and gravitational space, thanks to:

• Its function of platform multimode of communications (maritime, air, railway, river and routi&eg turned towards the external markets.
• Its important network of foreign firms, established in Languedoc-Roussillon Septimanie, which reinforces the international opening of the area.
  
  

• An environment of quality: Vaste protected natural parcs, safeguarded rural areas, a network of cities.
• Demographic attraction and controlled urbanization : the regional population increases twice more quickly than the average of other French areas. This surge of new population is controlled perfectly thanks to a balanced network of principal and average cities.
• The quality of the regional infrastructures : The control of water for agriculture, A well organized coastlineof urbanization and tourism,(7 new beach resorts and 22 marinas), a powerful network of means of communication (5 airports, 3 seaports,TGV and the crossroads of 4 Motorways).
• An area mobilized and organized for the reception of new activities:
  specialized zones of reception, as to implant and  help in the creation of new companies in connection with a very important regional potential in research.