Clos de Fouscais - BnB

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Property Type: Bed and Breakfast Sleeps Max: 10 Bedrooms: 6 Swimming Pool: Yes Town: Nr. Montpellier Region: Herault Reference Number: FD22424/G18 Contact Number: 04 67 44 65 48 Major towns and distance from property: Beziers 35 Kms Pezenas 20 Kms Montpellier 35 Kms

Fouscaïs is a small, secluded and wooded hamlet on the outskirts of Clermont l'Hérault, an old market town 20 km south of the Larzac Plateau and 30 km from the Mediterranean coast. In the third century AD the hamlet, which has a natural spring, was the site of the home of the Roman Prefect for the whole of Southern Gaul, hence the name Fouscais which is a corruption of the latin Fons Cassius (the fountain of Cassius, the Prefect). The river Hérault runs through the village of Canet 2 km away. The new autoroute extension of the A75 (Millau-Béziers) has recently been opened, with the interchange for Clermont l’Hérault less than 1 km from the hamlet.

The house is stone built, originally a presbytere (priest,s house) with a chapel, with parts dating back from the 18th Century to mediaeval times , one of only five houses in the hamlet. It has 4 available guest bedrooms in the main house, and an old Orangérie, converted into a self-contained twin-bed flat near the swimming pool, which is available for use by the guests. Breakfast is served in the large, family kitchen/dining room or in summer outside on the adjacent terrace. The owner is an antique dealer, (with a well known shop in London called Relic Antiques)and there is a large interesting showroom not far from the house (There is a buyer's discount off the rooms.) He also offers as extras, a courier service to the big monthly or bi-monthly antique fairs at Montpellier, Beziers and Avignon, and help arranging transport and shipping. At the road entrance to the hamlet cul-de-sac,a narrow lane turns right and leads down past the front of the house, ending in a 'place'.But the parking entrance is 50 metres further on the road to Nebian, just before the disused railway bridge. A right turn then brings you up to the visitors'parking area at the rear of the house.

Places of Interest

The local town of Clermont l’Hérault is built around the hilltop castle of Pioch Castel, dating back to the Visigothic conquest in 470 AD. The town has a number of good restaurants on the tree-lined main avenue and more up below the castle, where there is also an excellent Wednesday morning food market selling the best delicacies of the region. 5 km northwest of the town is the beautiful Lac Salagou, with sailing and windsurfing as well as swimming and fishing. Nearby, on the road to Bédarieux is the 17th C. village of Villeneuvette, built by Louis XIV to revive the tapestry industry in the face of English competition. It remains unchanged, with tiny cobbled streets and the original weavers cottages, some of which - joined to an old manor - have become a country club style hotel, La Source, with an excellent terraced restaurant, tennis courts, and swimming pool. Due north, past the lake, the main road/autoroute runs up through tunnels and round hairpin bends, to the wild and rugged Larzac plateau, the least populated area in the whole of France, and the site of the caves where Rocquefort cheese is made. The Devil’s Causeway is a high bridge over the Hérault river, some 8 km east of The nearby village of Canet, and beyond it the dramatic river road winds up past gorges and ravines, rapids and waterfalls towards the mountains of the Cevennes and its national park famous for its unique micro-climate, flora and fauna. Going south from Clermont towards the coast one passes by the historic town of Pezenas - a major centre for antiques with over 40 shops - and then on to the Cathar city of Béziers where the population was slaughtered by the northerners during the Albigensian crusade. Then on past the villages along the Canal du Midi to the small coastal resort town of Valras, with a huge long sandy beach, harbour and marina, a Sunday morning fish market And numerous seafood restaurants. A little over an hour's drive east, along the southern autoroute, are the cities of Nîmes and Arles, and the Camargue, while the same distance westward brings you to Carcassonne and the ‘Pays Cathar’. (The following prices are for a room for two people with breakfast.)

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