Quoted of history, registered in the World Inheritance, Arles is also with the doors of the Camargue.

57 km/1 H

to see the patrimonial site of the town of Arles

Magic word, the Camargue is the territory where the men live with the horses, the bulls, the birds, the sky and water.
Magic of a country to preserved natural spaces, fragile sanctuary of an exceptional fauna and a flora in Europe, protected by the regional natural reserve from the Camargue, it is a single landscape.
It is besides as as a natural space of world interest as Arles is classified by UNESCO like world Inheritance of Humanity.
Located between the two arms of the Rhone (it is a delta: the large Rhone towards south-east, the small Rhone towards south-west) the Camargue is the vast wetland of approximately 100.000 hectares, largest of France and also one of most secret. It is divided in three quite distinct zones: cultures in the north of the delta, the saline ones in the west and the east and lagoons in the south.
The Camargue, it is also a territory manufactured by the man, who worked space with in particular the damming up of the two arms of the Rhone and the sea, and the development of an agriculture adapted like the culture of rice and the harvest of salt. It reached that point by the control of the exchanges between fresh waters of the Rhone, those saltworks of the Mediterranean and the grounds of the delta. A hundred herds are devoted to the breeding of horses and Camargue bulls.
The horse is before all the companion of the gardian but also his working tool. The intervention of the man also allowed the protection of the medium with the creation of a natural reserve and regional Natural reserve but also of sites open to the public.
The Camargue is also an ornithological sanctuary since nearly 400 species of birds were listed there of which the pink flamingo, which constitutes the symbol of the birds of the Camargue. It is necessary to take time to explore the Camargue while following the pedestrian paths or marked out cyclists or by overlapping a horse of Camargue race, which constitutes an ideal mounting for equestrian tourism.