Markets

Whilst you're in the region, don't forget to stop at some of the stalls in the sunny market-places of the Hérault Valley.

You'll get an enthusiastic and unpretentious welcome from the stallholders and a chance to try some authentic local produce.
Sample our local wines and try a taste of our olive oil, tapenade, goat's cheese and a host of other products that will set your taste-buds tingling.

Our lively, colourful village markets are pleasant, welcoming places, with a festive, friendly, sociable atmosphere. Keen market-goers choose them as much for pleasure as from necessity. Shopping in a market is about not being in a rush: you need to take the time to smell, to touch, to weigh things in your hand, to look, to meet people, to listen, to chat. Enjoy the variety of shapes and colours, smells and sounds. Laugh at a joke or a juicy bit of gossip, or share a heartfelt confidence or a deeply-held conviction.

Go to the market and you'll really get to know the area inside-out!

Meet local farmers and enjoy a chance to savour locally grown fruits and vegetables, from the latest cultivars to the traditional varieties now being reintroduced by some producers.

At the market, you really can still enjoy the best of seasonal produce!
You'll be spoilt for choice at the butchers' and charcutiers’ (pork butchers') stalls, and there's a treat in store for fish lovers, with trout reared in St-Guilhem-le-Désert and other fish and shellfish straight from the Mediterranean.