Bed and Breakfast, chambre et table d'hote at le Viala in the Cevennes in the South of France

In a old farmhouse, a so-called "mas cévenol" of the XVIth century entirely restored, we have well-appointed guest-rooms to receive you.

All comfort combined with the conviviality of our family-table.

We'll serve you good french meals with a good humour, mainly regional products and wine out of the caves of guilleret...

Le Viala is a suitable place to start a lot of interesting discvery-walks of the Bougès and the Mont Lozère mountains.

Since 1971 the UNESC0 has started a worldwide program named Man and Biosphere whose purpose is reciprocal relations between Man and his environment with regard to necessities of conservation and development. The Cévennes national Park created in 1970 makes part of it since 1985.
The sites in the Park are exceptional by their beauty, by their variety, by their ecological interest... the panoramas are splendid, the natural monuments numerous. All these very different landscapes, while being of a savage greatness, are marked by human work and worth to be visited. So valued sites must be protected

Geographical regions: causse Méjean, limestone plateau belonging to the 'grands causses', average aItitude:1 000 m; grazing of sheeps.

Mont Lozère, granitic massif; highest point: 1699 m; breeding of cows, transhumance of sheeps.
Mountain of Bougès, granitic and schist massif, wooded on the northern slopes; highest point: 1 421 m; breeding of cows and sheeps, Iumbering.
Valleys of Gardons, excavated in the schiste: breeding of goats and sheeps; bee-keeping; chestnut grove.
Fauna: until the XlXth century, the high human density has made the large wild animals regress but now Cevennes national Park, with a low human density and a non-chemical agriculture, is the refuge for fauna.
Dliminution of cultivated areas and progression of moors and forests have created again favourabie environment for big fauna: wild boars, birds of prey. SmaIl carnivorous are also numerous. Cevennes national Park has reintroduced red deer,beaver, griffon vulture and tries the reintroduction of woodgrouse.
Flora: the range of vegetation is a very large one as it extends from vegetal associations related to evergreen oak to natural beech and fir grove of the northern siopes of mont Lozère . Some rocky places have endemic species.

Cevennes national Park has 2000 species of plants, a lot protected ones like martagon lily, yellow adonis, 43 orchids....
The chestnut grove, cultivated since more than a thousand years and the terraces composes a typical landscape...

In order to help you organising your stay, all kind of documentation is available like the maps IGN 1/25.000, nature-, park- and environmental information belonging to the PANDA-kit.

Also for finding and receiving tranquillity or
gastronomy it's the right place.

Our rooms have received the "gîte de France" and "gîte PANDA" - label by W.W.F (France) and the Parc national des Cévennes.

To make yourself at home you can choose out of a nice flower-garden, a sitting room with fire-place and a sunny terrace with pergola.