RANDONNÉE SIRAN LA GARRIGUE

Penetrate at your own pace the wild landscapes of this beautiful circuit and try to imagine what the country could look like without all this scrubland! The landscape is a very good indicator of human activity, it testifies to the use of the environment by man and evolves according to his needs. From prehistoric times to today, from gathering to viticulture, the causses (the limestone plateaus) have always been the place of important human activity. Viticulture having taken the place of pastoralism, they are now covered with a dense vegetation of scrubland composed of kermes oaks, rockroses, boxwoods, scorpion brooms, pistachio trees... with, in the more open areas, irises, asphodel, orchids and aphyllantes? In the middle of the last century, flocks of sheep still existed in the Minervois still existed in the Minervois and roamed its spaces, using walled paths that are still visible.