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RANDONNEE A LA DECOUVERTE DE L'ORCHIDEE SAUVAGE
On the outskirts of Pézenas, discover Tourbes with its hills dotted with garrigues, pine forests and vineyards, and its 3 kilometer-long (yellow) "Wild Orchid Trail"?
In Tourbes, during the Neolithic period, a major 1st Iron Age necropolis was discovered at Bonne-Terre, and several Gallo-Roman villae were found around the village.
By the 10th century, a small settlement with a church existed; first called Torves, then Torreves, the village became Tourbes.
First mentioned in 990, its history follows that of the town of Pézenas from 1261, when the two towns were bought by King Saint-Louis.
A stroll from the heart of the village takes you past numerous XV, XVI and XVII century winegrowers? houses and the imposing 14th-century Southern Gothic church of Saint-Saturnin.
On the outskirts of Pézenas, discover Tourbes, with its hills dotted with garrigues, pine forests and vineyards, and its 3-kilometre "Wild Orchid Trail" (marked in yellow)?
By the 10th century, a small settlement with a church existed; first called Torves, then Torreves, the village became Tourbes.
First mentioned in 990, its history follows that of the town of Pézenas from 1261, when the two towns were bought by King Saint-Louis.
A stroll from the heart of the village takes you past numerous XV, XVI and XVII century winegrowers? houses and the imposing 14th-century Southern Gothic church of Saint-Saturnin.
On the outskirts of Pézenas, discover Tourbes, with its hills dotted with garrigues, pine forests and vineyards, and its 3-kilometre "Wild Orchid Trail" (marked in yellow)?
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