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It is one of the most beautiful villages of France.As you emerge from the gorges of La Cesse and Le Briant, the village appears at the end of a limestone plateau bordered with steep cliffs in a fantastic and tortuous mineral landscape.. The origins of Minerve seem to be earlier than the fortress of the Viscounts of Minerve which was built in the 11th century..
In Haut-Languedoc, limestone plateaux, covered in scrub, are sliced through by deep canyons, splashed with red ochre on lake shores, pitted with caves and natural craters, and strewn with historic sites - from industrial relics to religious monuments and ancient citadels....
The combined efforts of water and nature have hewn a series of bridges, which take the form of remarkable tunnels piercing the limestone plateau....
The combined efforts of water and nature have hewn a series of bridges, which take the form of remarkable tunnels piercing the limestone plateau....
Cross the splendid solitude of the Causse Méjean (limestone plateau) with its 33,000 hectares of wild prairies, scattered with hamlets full of houses with roofs of local stone and little shepherds ' shelters....