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- Musée-Bibliothèque Pierre-André-Benoit. In a scruffy western suburb of Alès is a museum founded by the art publisher Pierre-André Benoit, who was friends with some of the most acclaimed artists of the day.
- Mine Témoin d’Alès. The Cévennes was a heartland for coal-mining from the middle ages up to the 1980s by which time production had completely stopped.
- Le Musée Minéralogique. At the École des Mines, which was once a mining college but is now an engineering university, there’s a whole museum dedicated to minerals and rocks.
- Musée du Colombier. In an 18th-century mansion complete with a formal garden and a cute dovecote is one of those out-of-the-way small town museums that you may have completely to yourself when you call in.
The welcoming town of Alès is the gateway to the Cévennes, with a rich mining past. Discover its pleasant floral areas and monuments, such as the cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, the Vauban fort, the town hall or the old bishop's palace. Have your say.
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Alès, town, Gard département, Occitanie région, southeastern France. It lies along a bend of the Gardon d’Alès River, at the foot of the Cévennes mountains, north-northwest of Nîmes. The town’s name meant “industry” in the language of its 10th-century-bce Phoenician founders. Alestium was its Roman name, and until 1926 the French ...
Alès is a small town in Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Although known as the capital of the Cevennes, you may have a hard time getting to Alès, partly because it's off the well-trod tourist track, and partly because everyone will assume you want to go to nearby, and bigger, Arles.
