At the beginning of the penultimate glaciation (Riss, 120.000 years av.J.C.) the man was
present in Biterrois. Primitive tools, such the "double-side one lancéolé" bring the proof from there. During millenia, small family groups wandering hunters-gatherers attended the timbered hill, equipped with abundant sources. The site will accomodate then the large villages of the farmer-stockbreeders of the Neolithic era; were put at the day, 264 tombs chasséen (Neolithic means) and a village of Vérazien
(final Neolithic era). There is more than 6500 years that the man is installed here, on the banks of Orb with two steps of the Mediterranean Marquée in its roots by épopée cathare,
Characteristics:
Capital Beziers of the vine and the wine, city of Rugby eleven titles of champion
of France, Registered voter to the world Inheritance of Humanity connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean…
MUNICIPAL SUCCESS (registered with the inventory of the Historic buildings)
Built in 1844 pennies the reign of Louis-Philippe, frontage to the antique, decorations of David of Angers, hearths of English inspiration, room out of wooden of Italian nature, this theatre "candy box" is the only work in France going back to this time to have preserved its esthetics of origin.
TOWN HALL (registered with the inventory of the Historic buildings)
Located on the old Roman forum, the current Town hall was built with XVIIIème S. according to the plans of Rollin, with the exact site where Mayo Communa in 1238 rose.
HOLY CHURCH MADELEINE (Classified Historic building)
Mentioned for the first time in 1092, the Madeleine was the parish of the Consuls. After several years of restoration, the church comes to find its Romance purity.
Episcopal see as of 76, the cathedral is drawn up at the top of the hill biterroise, in a prestigious unit including/understanding bell-tower, episcopal Palais (today Law courts), cloister and Jardin of the Bishops. Several buildings followed one another and the Romance church was destroyed by a fire at the time of the Bag of Béziers in 1209. It was rebuilt of XIIIème in XVème S. in the southernmost Gothic style. The Western frontage, of XIVème S., is a true fortress. The interior, of a great rise, conceals frescos of XIVème S., the baroque unit of the chorus, an organ case of XVIIème S. the vault of the sacristy to the star veins is a head of Gothic work of art finishing of XVème S. The cloister of XIVème S.,
ANCIENT AMPHITHEATRE
At the beginning of our era, the circus games attracted a considerable crowd in these ellipsoidal arenas. An intelligent restoration and a development have just returned them to the city for the first time for 1800 years.
The Mill of Bagnols
Registered voter with the inventory. Property in XIIème century of the Bishop and the Viscount, then of the Abbot of Saint-Aphrodise and the King.
Five mills with corn used water as driving force
Roman arenas, the Saint-Nazaire cathedral, the mill of Bagnols…
To see too
the old Bridge, the Romance house, the Christol house, private mansions
from traditional time, the church of Penitent Blue, the old Cemetery,
the Antonine villa, New arenas
Walks in the neighbourhoods
Valras, Sérignan, Agde and the Cape from Agde, Pézenas, Fontcaude, Roquebrun, Ensérune, Forty, quoted cathare of Minerve, caves of Devèze, Clamouse, the Young ladies, lakes of the Jump of Vézoles, Raviège, Salagou, Laouzas, pleasure sailing on the Channel of the South (classified with the world Inheritance of Humanity), Throats of Héric, Regional Natural reserve of High Languedoc
