ZIP 34520
Altitude: 584m
Surface: 6859ha
142 inhabitants
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St Maurice de Navacelles

navacelle Circus of Navacelles
This natural circus, one of most imposing and impressive Europeansite , classified Great Site of France, is an enormous funnel dug by the river" la vis", flow of lHérault. Located between Causses of Larzac and Blandas, It's the perfect lillustration of the water work . The vis' canyon , in Navacelles, described a perfect meander, dominated by cliff walls abrupt; this titanic geological curiosity was born from a meander of the river. Immense basin resulting from collapse the plates limestones (approximately 300 m of depth, meander approximately 1 500 m). The natural view-point of the Auriol Balsam makes it possible to discover and to embrace perfectly this wonder and this whim of nature and time. On this raised position, a diaporama will supplement your visit.A small road, encrusted in the rock, will bring you in the content of the crater, with the hamlet of Navacelles, on the edges of the Screw. While raising the eyes, the there crushing spectacle is quite as imposing. Upstream, by a mule track, the resurgence of Foux is one of most powerful of the area. De Vissec with Madières the throats of the Screw notched causse in a gigantic canyon that lon can discover view-point of the Auriol Balsam and the point of view of Blandas.
Exits motorway A75 N° 49 and 52.

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Asphodéles St Maurice de Navacelles
Phon +334.67.44.62.55

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