A Magic natural site in Edge of the Mejean Causse
The path of Nimes-the-Old man, accessible starting from the Collar from Perjuret, offers in 4,5 km hardly a short cut of the multiple impressions which can give birth to the landscape from the Méjean Causse: stony and arid croups, some deep ground basins redrawn by the sinuous feature of the plough, the cornices which are drawn up in rampart in front of the pit of the valleys and of extended from jagged rocks whose forms captivate the visitor by their capacity to excite the imaginary one.
IGN SIGNAL 25 2640 OT Gorges of the Tarn and Jonte - Méjean Causse
Registered voter in central zone of the NationaI Park of the Cevennes, the ruiniform site of Nimes-the-Old man was baptized thus, in 1908, by his "decouvror", Paul Arnal, Pasteur with Vébron. In 1910 Ia re-examined Causses and the Cevennes published an article of large geographer E.A. Martel, devoted to the site: "Of the hamlets of Veygalier and Hom until Borie de Galy and with Ia Fontaine of Aures, (it) develops with the average altitude of 1100 m on nearly 4 km of wide it is cliff a face, a projection of the surface of the Méjean Causse, which presents a big length of half-circuses, very roughcast hundreds of dolomitic rocks, perforated, cut, carved…"
