Chaos de Nîmes-le-Vieux

The chaos of Nîmes-le-Vieux is a site ruiniform located in the northeastern plateau Méjean in Lozère. It is accessible by the collar of Perjuret between Florac and Meyrueis.

Registered in central area of ​​the Cevennes National Park, the chaos-le-Vieux Nîmes was christened in 1908 by its discoverer, Paul Arnal, pastor Vebron, by analogy with the chaos of Montpellier-le-Vieux, a similar site discovered 25 years earlier by the great geographer Édouard-Alfred Martel. In 1910, the journal published Causses and Cévennes also an article of the latter, on the site: "hamlets of Veygalier and Hom to the Borie of Galy and the Fountain of Aures, it develops the average altitude of 1100 m near 4 km in extent. It is a cliff face, a projection of the surface of the mesa Mejean, which has a very long half-circles, all bristling with hundreds of dolomitic rocks, holes, cut, carved ... "

A nature trail, set up by the Cevennes National Park with the assistance of the owners, through the chaos between Hom and Gally.