Mas Font Claire Chambres d'hote dans le Gard
Between the Roman city of Nîmes and the student city of Montpellier, welcome to Mas Fontclaire. An authentic wine-grower's dwelling, a haven of peace a few steps from the medieval town of Sommières gateway to the Cévennes and 30 minutes from the Camargue and the Mediterranean.
A garden full of flowers and birds alongside a peacefully flowing river.
Gîtes de France and Guide du Routard since 1993
Address: 8 Avenue Emile Jamais
30250 Sommières (start of the 'voie verte' cycle track)
Tel./Fax: 04.66.77.78.69 / &33.4.66.77.78.69
Access: A9 exit 27
Lunel D34 direction Sommières,
Follow the signs for 'centre historique'
Airport: Montpellier 30 kms
Nîmes 30 kms
Railway station: Nîmes 30 kms, 2'50' from Paris on the TGV fast train
GPS coordinates 43°46’49,22N / 4°05’30,07
The rooms
«La Rose»
Romantic decor-polished plaster walls: double bed, WC, bathroom, TV, Wi-Fi
«La Suite»
Stone walls, antique furniture: double bed, bathroom, two single beds, shower, WC, sitting room with TV, Wi-Fi
«Studio Provençal»
Renovated wine cellar, light and spacious: double bed (1.60m), shower, WC, sitting room with TV, freezer, microwave, vitroceramic hob, fridge
Prices: From €80 to €120 for two people
€20 for each additional person
Closed parking at night-time or outside the property
Breakfast is included:
Colette wakes you with the aroma of croissants!
Home-made jams, freshly baked bread....
A genuine highlight of your day.
In French or in English, with the lilting accent of the South, Colette will help you discover, step by step, a region that has been home to her family for six generations.
No brochure – just personally tailored advice on places to visit, good restaurants, how to organise your day… as the crickets chirp in the background.
At the Mas, we like Mozart, Beethoven and opera – but we also appreciate a glass of the local white, silence and guitars.
You're in the 'South'. Welcome to the Mas.
Activities in the local area:
Cross-country cycling
Walks (on the cycle track, by foot, bike or roller skates)
Golf course 7 kms away
Gliding centre 25 kms away
Good restaurants
Horse-riding stables
Tennis courts
Canoe rental
Vineyard visits, tastings, gourmet itinerary
Festivities :
Traditional market on Saturdays
Second-hand market
Feria in Nîmes at Whitsun and in September
Medieval street party in April
Tauromachy - 'Courses camarguaises' where the bull is not harmed
Festivals: jazz-country-classical music
From your base at Mas Fontclaire:
Montpellier 29 kms away:
Guided visits of historic private mansions
The Fabre Museum (Soulages)
Antigone district (designed by Ricardo Bofill)
Polygone (shopping centre)
Odysséum (leisure and shopping centre)
Planetarium
Giant aquarium
Zoological gardens
Serre Amazonienne (glasshouse)
Tourist Office 04 67 60 60 60
Nîmes
Roman city
Roman amphitheatre
Maison carrée (Roman temple)
Roman baths
Whitsun and Harvest ferias
Music festivals in the Roman amphitheatre
Anduze
The Bambouseraie, an exotic bamboo garden unique in Europe
(04 66 61 70 47)
Pottery works: in the olden days, the great Anduze jars for orange and lemon trees lined the avenues leading to large country estates
The little Cévennes steam train (04 66 50 59 00)
Tourist Office 04 66 61 98 17
St Jean du Gard
Musée du désert (Protestant museum)
Mediterranean coast
Grau du Roi
Palavas
La Grande Motte
Sète
Bouzigues (oyster farming)
Uzès
First Duchy of France
Place aux herbes
Wednesday market
The Day of the Truffle
Tourist Office 04 66 22 68 88
La Camargue - Ste Maries de la mer
Bull breeding
Fauna (flamingos, egrets, coypus)
The Camargue by 4x4, boat or on horseback.
Arles Roman amphitheatres, cloister, the feria
Aigues Mortes the old ramparts, street parties and music festivals
Pont du Gard Roman aqueduct - UNESCO World Heritage site
2500 sq.m. museum, exhibitions
Fireworks displays 08 20 90 33 30
The Hérault Valley
St Guilhem le Désert and the Gellone Abbey -
a UNESCO World Heritage site
The Grottes des Demoiselles and Clamouse underground caves
Canoe trips down the Hérault River
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This page was last updated: 02 March 2011
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