Lamalou-les-bains
Lamalou-the-baths
Tourist and thermal pole, Lamalou-the-Baths is located at 200 meters of altitude, in a dominated shaded small valley of significant buttresses in the Regional Natural reserve of High-Languedoc.
Oasis of greenery and of calms, the city attracts each year of many visitors followers of the well-food. The modern infrastructures and the many tourist activities do one of the most appreciated thermal spas of it France.
Contrary to much of thermal spas, Lamalou-the-Baths does not have a Roman origin. Its name comes quite simply from the brook crossing the city which was called "Malou" or "Betoulet", to become "Bitoulet today". The sources of the city constitute a small watershed. They are located on a significant fault and appeared following boring of mining galleries. The tradition wants that a peasant, suffering of pains, bathed in the muddy pond formed by this water and withdrew an appreciable sedation of sound from it badly.
With Lamalou-the-Baths, a multitude of activities will allow you to appreciate in all seasons the dynamism of the station. Whatever your aptitudes, you will be able to practise the sports of your choice with complete freedom and to devote yourselves to the joys of the golf. The casino of Lamalou-the-Baths will bring emotions and perhaps fortune to you.
With Lamalou-the-Baths, a multitude of activities will allow you to appreciate in all seasons the dynamism of the station. Whatever your aptitudes, you will be able to practise the sports of your choice with complete freedom and to devote yourselves to the joys of the golf. The casino of Lamalou-the-Baths will bring emotions and perhaps fortune to you.
The festival of operettas, unique in France, will fill each summer the in love ones with the beautiful music and the beautiful voices.
Our-lady of Capimont - Lamalou-the-Baths
Overhanging the Valley of Orb, perched with 400 meters above Lamalou-the-Baths and Hérépian, the sanctuary of Our-Lady of Capimont, dedicated to the Virgin, is a freshness and haven of peace in the medium of holm oaks. Romance vault of XIIe century to which was coupled a hermitage of XVIIe, it is the witness of the religious past of the neighbouring villages.
St-Michel de Mercoirol - Surfaces
On a rock piton, to 468 m of altitude, the vault of the Michaelmas is drawn up above the ruins of the castle of Mercoirol. This fort controlled the old Roman way which connected Béziers in Cahors while skirting Mercoirol and Rhèdes. The castle, whose certain walls present an intact apparatus wisigothic, is announced as of 990 in a will of the Viscount of Béziers. Principal pilgrimage on May 8. Possible automobile access to the ramparts by a way beginning on the road from the Surfaces, to 500 m of the bridge of Vernière, on the level of the signpost "Crushed It".
St-Pierre de Rhèdes - Lamalou-the-Baths
This worthy church rests on the foundations of an antique Christian sanctuary installed at the end of IVe century in the Gallo-Roman site of Rhèdes. Dominating the cemetery of Lamalou, road of Poujol-on-Orb, the priory Saint-Pierre de Rhèdes, historic building, one of purest jewels of the rural Romanesque art in France constitutes the. The architecture and the attractive sculptures of this primitive parish of the region date from XIe-XIIe centuries. Visit commented on free every Wednesday at 14. 30, from February to November. Appointment in front of the old station of Lamalou-the-Baths. Musical program in season
