Le Montlouvier
Yellow waymarksSignposts will guide you all along this route. In the description below, the signposted place names and/or directions are given in bold italics between quotation marks :
Starting at “AUMESSAS”, walk to “ST GEORGES” via “Vernes”. A detour (there-and-back) to the former hamlet is highly recommended. Then continue to “LES VERNÈDES” via “Roques Longues”.
From “LES VERNÈDES”, walk to “Sous la Luzette”, then to “Sous le col des Portes” and “PANORAMA DES MOLIERES”.
Go back to “LES VERNÈDES” via “Les Molières”.
Then return directly to “AUMESSAS” via “Roques Longues” along the Rau d’Albagne river.
This walk is taken from the guidebook Les Vallées Cévenoles - En Pays Viganais, published by the Communauté de communes Pays Viganais-Cévennes as part of the collection Espaces Naturels Gardois and the label Gard Pleine Nature.
1 point of interest
Aumessas - N Thomas 
HistoryAumessas village
Aumessas was called Ulmensacium in 1248, from Latin ulmus meaning elm.
In 1769 1,300 inhabitants lived here (240 at the most recent census), the majority of them on the lower lands, below 600m. Their income was derived partly from chestnut growing but mostly from silk farming. On the eve of the French Revolution, 54 silk manufacturers made Aumessas their home. The other inhabitants were shepherds. They lived up in the mountains. The land belonged to the landed gentry, the middle classes or merchants.
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Recommandations
Make sure your equipment is appropriate for the day’s weather conditions. Take enough water, wear sturdy shoes and put on a hat. Please close any gates and barriers behind you.
Information desks
Tourism office Cévennes and Navacelles, Le Vigan
Maison de pays, place du Marché, BP 21, 30120 Le Vigan
This office is part of the National Park's associated tourist-information network, whose mission is to provide information on, and raise awareness of, the sites and events as well as the rules that must be observed in the National Park's central zone.
Open year-round
Transport
Alés bus line 142
Nîmes line 140
Montpellier line 608
LIO Région Occitanie - https://lio.laregion.fr/
Access and parking
From Alès or Nîmes take the D999 to Le Vigan then Arre. Take the D232 to Aumessas
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