Pégairolles-de-Buèges
- Picnic area
- Historical heritage
- Prehistoric heritage
- Hiking trail
- Medieval village
Dominated by the Séranne, the village of Pégairolles-de-Buèges is included in the buffer zone of the "Causses and Cévennes", classified by Unesco as a cultural landscape of agro-pastoralism among the world heritage sites.
Its traditional and well-preserved medieval appearance is highlighted by the silvery foliage of the olive trees.
Pégairolles-de-Buèges was built around a castle of which only a few sections of the walls and the tower remain. Wandering through the narrow streets, you will reach the castle chapel, now a parish church (12th century), located at the foot of the square keep. A little further on, the street opens onto a square from which the view opens up onto the valley, where vines and olive trees stretch out in complete serenity on the lower slopes of the Séranne.
Not far away, at Méjanel, the Buèges spring flows into a pool of clear water shaded by plane trees.
In the surrounding area, the Natura 2000 listed landscape, very Mediterranean, contrasts with the dark needles of the Austrian black pines, the forest of Saint-Guilhem and its rare Salzmann pines is nearby.
What is the "Buèges"?
Boia, Bodia, such were the first names of the Buèges valley in the 11th century. The word, from the Gallic balga, refers to a deep and humid ground, probably as the valley appeared to its inhabitants at that time. During the 18th century, it was preceded by the article "la" taken in isolation and in a restrictive way, to designate the river.
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Patrimoine et culture à Pégairolles-de-Buèges
- Le Sentier Séranne-Pontel (PR)
- The passage of the GR 74 at Mas d'Aubert, (it joins Saint-Privat to Saint-Maurice-Navacelles)
- Le Méjanel, source of the Buèges (picnic area, swimming prohibited)
- The menhirs of Lavagnes, dolmens, caves
- Castral church (XIIᵉ century)
- Remains of ramparts
- Mill, drailles, mule track
- Valmy scrubland
- The commune is classified Terrasses du Larzac (vins AOP)
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