Vauvert
Vauvert (; oc, Vauverd) is a commune in the far south of the Gard department in southern France. It was known as ''Posquières'' in the Middle Ages. The commune comprises the town of Vauvert and the villages of Gallician and Montcalm.
Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc-Roussillon (; oc, Lengadòc-Rosselhon ; ca, Llenguadoc-Rosselló) is a former administrative region of France. On 1 January 2016, it joined with the region of Midi-Pyrénées to become Occitania. It comprised five departments, and b ...
, southern
France
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. It has a population of about 1,000 people. It is located 6 km south of Vauvert, on the
Canal du Rhône à Sète
The Canal du Rhône à Sète (lit. "canal from the Rhône to Sète") is a canal in southern France, which connects the Étang de Thau in Sète to the Rhône River in Beaucaire, Gard. The canal is made up of two previously constructed canals, the ...
, which links the river
Rhône
The Rhône ( , ; wae, Rotten ; frp, Rôno ; oc, Ròse ) is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea. At Ar ...
The village contains a church, three large houses (Mas Beata, Mas du Notaire and Mas de Mourgues), a bakers, a small supermarket and two bar/restaurants, a bullfight arena, a camp site, a cooperative wineryCave pilote de Gallician at Vins-Rhone accessed August 2007 and the Van Gogh school for younger children.
At Gallician is the start of the Via Rhôna, a new long-distance cycle path which follows the Rhône, and links the village to Palavat-les-Flots in
Hérault
Hérault (; oc, Erau, ) is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France. Named after the Hérault River, its prefecture is Montpellier. It had a population of 1,175,623 in 2019.Villages in Occitania (administrative region)
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