Highlights of beautiful BÉZIERS ~ one of the oldest towns in FRANCE 🇫🇷

Let me show you today some highlights of a walk through a beautiful town.
Welcome to Béziers France 🇫🇷 that is located in sunny southern France and is close to the Mediterranean coast.
I visited this lovely town late afternoon at the end of April for a few hours and I will take you with me to see its viewpoints and must see highlights. We will see the river Orb from above and below, and visit an old Roman bridge that dates back to the middle ages: Le pont vieux. We walk through a tree lined street / park and see the beautiful Theatre 🎭 building and much more… do join me.

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Today’s photographic selection will be of 40 PHOTOGRAPHS
Date : 30 April 2025
The Photographs in this post are taken with my iPhone.
I will follow the time stamps on them. So it looks like you are experiencing my adventures on this walk to #discover everything what I saw, like the little #details seen through my eyes.

Location of the town of Béziers in France we find on the following screenshots of Google Maps :

Zooming in we see the town’s center and the river Orb.

For more information about Béziers and its history see:
Wikipedia Béziers here!
It tells us a lot about the town.
Like the following information that you find in above’s website ;

Béziers is one of the oldest cities in France. Research published in March 2013 shows that the ancient Greek colony of Béziers dates from 575 BCE, making it older than Agde (Greek Agathe Tyche, founded in 525 BCE) and slightly younger than Marseille (Greek Massalia, founded in 600 BCE)

Do have a read for more interesting info…

You find also a lot about the town Béziers and things to do there and when best to visit :
On PureFrance.

Are you all ready for our walk today?
Yes, great. Let’s go…

We start our walk at one of the viewpoints that is located at the Cathédrale Saint-Nazaire and the garden surrounding it.

There is a large stone wall that lets us peek over to see the surrounding countryside. As you can see we are rather high, most of the town is located on an elevation.

Looking further left. We will walk slowly along the wall.

To take in all the views we can see on this side.

Looking a bit further right now as we walked a bit more. We see prestine grassland or crops from a farm.

Reaching the end of the wall there is a viewpoint that lets you see the river Orb below us.

We follow the river towards the left.

And I zoom in upstream again. More mountains visible in the distance.

On top of the wall is a guide for us to show us exactly what we can see in the distance but also closer by. A proper map. It shows us where the old Roman bridge is.

Can you spot it?
Yes. Shall we try to get to it…
I think that is a great plan.

Walking towards the cathedral we see this large knight. Pretty cool 😎

More information about him in French.

For an english version have a look here:
Raimond-Roger Trencavel.

I discovered there is a pathway that turns into a wooden board walk all the way down this side of the town. On some levels we find a lot of steps. There are elevators but they didn’t work at 2 parts while we were there. This didn’t stop us, as going down is very doable. Just getting up later… haha
We see at a quarter of the way down this view. Getting closer to the roofs of the town.

We also see a little bit further the Roman bridge better. What a beauty, can’t wait to be closer to it.

Half way down we have this view towards the right. You see part of the boardwalk too.

Finally we made it down and we crossed a road. Following signs towards the old bridge we made it. There were lots of people walking in the beginning so I waited with taking photos until most were gone.
Looking back at the town and the cathedral with its viewpoints we came from. Most of the viewpoints were from further… the left side around the corner you can’t see. Behind the trees.

Zooming out. So beautiful!

We are looking towards the right now. The town still ahead of us.

We crossed the old bridge and we walk through a little park on the other side. Here you get the best views of the old bridge plus the town of Béziers and its highlights far up the hill.

What a pretty sight. Don’t miss to go all the way over the old bridge and look back at yourself. It is stunning.

One of my favourite photos from today:
The day was just perfect. Nice sunny and warm. It is around 1800h already here.

Zooming out further to give you a wider view around us. So beautiful. The park is also so well maintained.

Shall we walk through it a bit? Ok… let’s do that.

I find some flowers blooming… early spring so they are bright and frame our views. This is another photo of my favourites. How can it not be? I think I will frame this one for on the wall.

I got a bit more artistic and capture some different flowers.

Now I focussed on the town/ changed my DOF.

Walking back over the bridge I take a few more photos.

Zooming in on the tower ( an old mill) far along the river.

We walked up into the town now. Not via all those steps but steep side roads. Do make sure you have good walking shoes on while doing so.
Wandering some small streets I find this beautiful statue.

Some information in french:
for english see the following website: The statue of Pepezuc.

We wander further and decide to walk through the Allées Paul Riquet towards the Theatre:

As it is late we have some dinner and wander back into the towns centre.

Going over the Allées Paul Riquet again. It is a beautiful area where kids play, locals watch the world go by. It is large… a large park that goes through the towns main route.

As it is already late the towns main parks do close at certain times. In the summer it is open longer. So we only peeked through the gate and see:

Luckily we could walk along its fence as we were heading towards the train station. At the bottom of the park. Yes, it goes down, or up depending the way you go. We see this large gate.

Through it we see a large monument.

Zooming in. Yes, if you are here one day. Try to visit this large park. It looks beautiful.

Walking through a tunnel under the street towards the train. I capture this postcard like mural.

Béziers is truly like a postcard perfect town. Such a stunning setting. I will visit it again. For sure.

…and here I say that’s all for today’s post my friends.
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Have a great day all!
Grtz Jackie

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