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Bleu Provence - Chambre d'hote à Beaucaire en Provence

Tourism in Provence


The area offers a great diversity of places of interest. Provence, Alpilles, Camargue, Ventoux... Old stones, natural sites, museums... You are ensured to find an activity which you like whatever the season and the time you have.


The pedestrian excursion
From the house you can leave to foot to the castle (1500 m) and walk along the Canal of the Rhone.

The visits of historic sites
They are innumerable all the area (castles of Beaucaire, Tarascon, Barbentane with 10 mn, then the Popes' Palace in Avignon with 20 mn and arenas of Nimes or Arles with 30 mn...). We hold of the leaflets and the prepared circuits at your disposal.

Markets, empty attics and secondhand trades 
In Beaucaire, market every wedenesday and sunday.
For the chineurs and the collectors. We know the days of the markets. That of Uzès, saturdays morning is one of the largest and of the most attended in the area.
Regular secondhand trades take place each week with Beaucaire, Nimes, Carpentras and Isle sur la Sorgue. They start in spring and last all the summer. Secondhand trades take place several times per year in each village.
Tourism in Provence

Gastronomy and landscapet of Provence

The bicycle touring 
There exist innumerable ways in the orchards very close to the house and which you can traverse on long distances. In each village there are fountains where you can refresh yourselves.

The VTT
the area is undulating but not too much, it makes the happiness of the beginners like senior touring cyclists.

The climbing and canoé in Collias (20 km)
In the throats of Gardon, in the heart of a very famous splendid site for the climbing ones.

Fishing 
Canal of the Rhône (1km) very full of fish. With the blow or the throw the Gardon east is a river of 2nd category. There are charts of fishing for the estivants (for 15 days consecutive of June 1st to September 30th). The channel of the Rhone  (7km) is also very full of fish. To 20 km Alzon where one fishes trout...

The votive festivals 
Each city or village have its arenas in which races camarguaises proceed (the goal is to catch a preceded rosette fixed on the horns of the bulls). These festivals put in scene the bulls which are launched in the streets (with barriers). Gardians with horse camarguais, show us the work of sorting, framing of the bulls... The goal is to try to catch the tail of a bull then to immobilize it (reserved with the bold ones.)


Feria at Nimes In the arena of Nimes bullfight in Nimes - Corrida

There is a multitude of activities which we cannot quote here, but we hold at your disposal of the folders, plans, schedules, tariffs of visits, guides... in order to facilitate your choice. 


Bed and Breakfast Provence

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Bleu Provence
Chez Pascaline et  Michel-Yves Prévost
Mas Charnay - 60 chemin de Foussat
30 300 Beaucaire - Gard - France
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