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Ales, FranceCar Trawler - Worldwide Car Rentals Ales (Languedoc-Roussillon) Pop: 41,000 Previously, the center of a mining area, Ales is home to La Tour Vieille, a botanical garden and playground. Cathedral Saint Jean-Rural helps keep this a fairy tale place unaffected by excessive tourism. Punky Connors Irish Pub-Features is supposed to have a brilliant lamb stew. No report in, thus far, on the Ales but we suspect the Stout might be quite good. Attractions in and near Ales: Nimes la Romaine, with its history and monumentsPont du Gard (Roman Aquduct) Uzès, a quiet town on the border of Provence, and its truffle marketAvignon, the Popes' City, and the Châteauneuf du Pape vineyards Ardèche with the Pont d'Arc (natural stone arc)Joyeuse, and its chestnut tree museum Les VansThe Cévennes Pont de Montvert beloved of Stevenson, and a little further awayThe Chan des Bondons mehirs Florac - the Cévennes National ParkCorniche des Cévennes - the road along the ridge St Jean du Gard, with its museum and aquariumAnduze - the bamboo forest, the steam train and pottery St Hippolyte du Fort : the silk trailThe Cevenol valleys, each with its rich past made up of silk, coal, chestnut trees, not forgetting the fertile history of religion and the Resistance Castles : Portes, Rousson, Aujac, Ribaute Underground Caves : La Cocaliere, Trabuc, Orgnac Museums : the Mining Museum (a former coal mine), the Desert Museum (retracing the Protestant religion), the Scribe's Museum, the Pre-history Museum Sites and entertainment, e.g. the Bamboo forest, the Cevenol Steam Train, the
Pont du Gard, the pont D'Arc Hotels in Ales
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