Welcome to the Camargue region of Gard
The Espiguette lighthouse is located in the heart of an exceptional area. Visible from several kilometres away, it is the main feature of the Espiguette natural site: a unique, wild and unspoilt but fragile location, classified as a Grand Site de France
L’Espiguette, a listed area of the Grand Site de France Camargue Gardoise
The Pointe de l’Espiguette, classified as a Natural Site in 1994, and the lighthouse, classified as a Historic Monument in 2012, form one of the four classified sites of the Camargue Gardoise, labelled Grand Site de France since 2014. This label recognises the uniqueness and exceptional preservation of these landscapes, the result of constant interaction between humans and freshwater and saltwater wetlands.
Welcome to the Camargue region of Gard!
With its grid of rice fields, bull farms, flamingos and horses, the Camargue is also rich in centuries-old traditions that can be discovered in the arenas or in the streets of our villages. Nature can be explored at a leisurely pace thanks to the many hiking and cycling trails, and even from the water in a canoe along the eco-paddling trail. Endlessly changing landscapes, where flora and fauna display their full diversity. Between plains, meadows, marshes, pine forests, hidden paths, small roads, tracks… The light throughout the Camargue is dazzling in all seasons.
Since 2018, La Camargue Gardoise has also been certified as a Grand Site Occitanie. Around forty must-see sites scattered throughout our Occitanie region offer visitors the best of our territory, its history and its magnificent landscapes. A brand, a label, a collection that is unique in France.
The beach in its raw and wild state
Unusual and imposing, lost amid the sands, the Espiguette lighthouse is now an integral part of the coastal dune landscape of the Gard region, the Pointe de l’Espiguette: it is both its icon and its beacon.
The Espiguette dune massif, immense and wild, criss-crossed by barkhanes, swept by winds, burnt by salt and sun, appears today as an authentic natural territory, untouched by human intervention. With its white dunes reaching up to 12 metres high and its endless beach, Espiguette forms a dune system admired by all lovers of the environment.
