Entdecken Sie Languedoc-Roussillon: Das Herz des südlichen Frankreichs

The main city of Languedoc-Roussillon is Montpellier, a thriving modern city in the Hérault, with a historic center. Other major cities in the region are Nîmes, Narbonne, Sete and Perpignan.

Languedoc's flat coastal plains used to be swampy and plagued with mosquitoes, which is why tourism did not develop, until the are has been drained in the 1960s. Today, the coast of Languedoc is characterized by long sandy beaches, with modern tourist infrastructures. In the last years, parts of the coastline have been recovered for more environmentally sensitive tourism development and among the quite densely built-up resort areas, there are attractive bits of coastline and an astonishing hinterland. The old Languedoc, far away from the coast and the big cities, is a beautiful area, characterized by vineyards and "garrigue", arid rocky Mediteranean hills with their vegetation of scrub, aromatic bushes and occasional fields.