Viols-en Laval
In Viols-en-Laval and on the Causse de Viols in general, archaeological sites are numerous.
The garrigues which surround the north of the city of Montpellier were the domain of choice for prehistoric man.
Viols-en-Laval is a small village without a church, because the community, a simple tenant farm at the time, depended on the vast parish of Saint-Etienne, whose church was located in Viols-le-Fort.
In the 16th century, a castle was built in place of the buildings of a farm.
It was embellished in the following century, for example by the addition of a carved door on the western façade.
Among the archaeological sites near Viols-en-Laval, there is the village of Cambous, dating from the Copper Age, which has been the subject of extensive excavations.
It is open to the public in the presence of an archaeologist, with activities taking place throughout the year, and features the reconstruction of a life-size hut.
With the village of Cambous, one of the oldest in France, you immerse yourself in a garrigue of mixed oaks (holm oaks and white oaks) surrounded by arid lawns traversed, even today, by two flocks of sheep.
In the evening, before returning to their sheepfold, they drink from the limestone washbasin which borders the access road to the prehistoric village.
Mairie de Viols-en-Laval
adresse : Place Paul Pépin
04 67 55 71 45
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Heritage and culture in Viols-en-Laval
- Le Réseau Vert®, du Mas Neuf à Roussières
- Castle of Cambous (XVIᵉ century)
- Dolmen, prehistoric stations, statue-menhir, tumuli
- Village préhistorique de Cambous (chalcolithique)
- Laundry, ice house, fortified farmhouse, dovecote
- Glass tradition
- The Springtime of Prehistory (May/June)
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