gite causse mejean

gite causse mejean

This is a great place to have a Gite. It is a interesting rural setting. In the south of France.

A gîte, is a French holiday home that is available for rent. Gîtes are usually fully-furnished and equipped for self-catering. Many owners choose to handle their own rentals and you can find these by searching online on the multitude of gite listing sites or by checking with the local tourist information office.

The original term Gite means quite simply a form of shelter. Gites today vary from being luxury holiday homes to very very basic apartments. Some Gites don't provide linen as standard, so many gite holiday makers take their linen with them. However many gite owners do include linen or at least the option of linen.

Gîtes are encouraged by the local tourist board and planning authorities as they attract investment and tourism.

All gîte owners are required to ensure that their gites are safe and comply with the necessary rules, regulations and insurance requirements.

Huge limestone plateau an integral part of the Grands Causses, the Causse Mejean or Méjan is the highest plateau caussenards with altitudes ranging from 800 m to 1 247 m at Mount Gargo. The area of the plateau approaching 34 000 hectares.

Geography

Located in France in the Massif Central in Lozere, Méjean is surrounded valleys impressive Jonte south, Tarnon to the east and Tarn in the north and west. It owes its name Méjan, which means "median", the central position he occupies between the Causse de Sauveterre north and the Black causse south.

Geology

The many layers of sediments and dolomitic limestone dating back almost all in full Jurassic and based on the benches sandstone of the Triassic covering the base hercynien (shale). The thick layers of limestone reached 650 m and up to 1 500 metres in places. Geologists several distinct types of rocks: limestone (the strict sense), which can be mass ity or marl, dolomite, marl and basalt (a few footsteps from the volcanic activity of recent tertiary).

The Causse Mejean

The concept of plate suggests a landscape flat and monotonous. However, the succession of reliefs and rounded or elongated depressions, chaos dolomitic break the monotony. The west shelf, lowest in elevation, is also fragmented by deep ravines of several dozen metres. It seems that the establishment of the landscape is the result of a set of vulnerabilities:

south to north: from the Pyrenees
east to west: from the Alps

The package was pénéplainaïsé and uprisings have made, causing the emergence layers of the oldest (tertiary).

Hydrography and climate

No rivers from flowing to the surface trays: rainwater joined the vast networks karst to resurface in the valleys and feed rivers Tarn and Jonte by many resurgence. . These underground river systems are the source of caves and avens remarkable.

Vegetation

Today, the Causses show a landscape radically changed, deeply marked by the human footprint, the livestock mainly. On the Méjean, lawns and heathlands boxwood and génévrier, sometimes fragmented plantation pine black, cover the eastern part of the plateau: the Causse naked. The vast hilly areas covered with dry grasslands are not without mentioning a steppe landscape, almost deserted. Yet we encounter through these wide open spaces of many rare and remarkable. The west side is more wooded (pine).

The Causses are a group of limestone plateaus (700-1,200 m) in the Massif Central. They are bordered to the north-west by the Limousin and the Périgord uplands, and to the east by the Aubrac and the Cévennes. Large river gorges cut through the plateaus, such as the Tarn, Dourbie, Jonte, Lot and Aveyron.

Arranged from the nord-west to the south-east, the following plateaus are found:

the Causses du Quercy :
the causse de Martel (Lot) ; the causse de Gramat (Lot) ; the causse de Limogne (Lot); the causse corrèzien (Corrèze)
the Grands Causses :
the causse du Comtal (Aveyron) ; the causse de Sévérac (Aveyron); the causse de Sauveterre (Lozère); the causse Méjean (Lozère) ; the causse Noir (Aveyron); the causse du Larzac (Aveyron and Hérault)

Technically speaking to be called a gîte the owner must live close by in order to provide help, assistance and a warm welcome to guests. Gîtes are generally old farmworkers cottages or converted outbuildings and barns within the proximity of the owners principal residence. This type of holiday accommodation is often regarded as basic in terms of facilities, however most gîtes are generally very well kept and a growing number will have excellent facilities such as fully fitted kitchens, bathrooms, TV, DVD and access to a swimming pool or other sporting activities. The term gîte nowadays encompasses most forms of holiday cottage and even holiday flats or apartments.

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