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1. ThemeTrekking Huguenots Trails is your chance to learn about the principal events, locations and personalities of the 18th century 'Camisard War' between the Protestant Huguenots and their Catholic opponents. This is unforgetable walking in France designed to remind us the senselessness of religious bigotry lest we forget. Trekking the 'French Religious Wars' is an fascinating opportunity to follow in the footsteps of the Protestants who fought a short and bloody war for 'religious freedom' in The Cevennes mountains at the beginning of the 18th Century. The Cevennes was the location for the world’s first guerilla war and resulting mass deportations. The fight for religious freedom from the centralising tendencies of the French Catholic State pitted the Royalist ‘Black Dragons’ of Louis XIV against the rebel ‘Camisards’ of Jean Cavalier. For some, the scars still remain and continue to mark life in the Cevennes. This is one of a range of historical walking tours in France that has you hiking Cevennes hilltop trails, and visiting the monuments, sanctuaries and battlegrounds that made news all over Europe three hundred years ago.
2. Model 7-night tour: Trekking Huguenots Trails
Day 1. Alès. Arrival and hotel check-in followed by urban walk around the Protestant stronghold in the Cevennes foothills. Day 2. The Jouany Trail. 7 miles-10 kms Morning transfer to Genolhac the town of Jouany, home and resting place of the Camisard Chief for The High Cevennes. Then hike a memorable Camisard trail, with the option to visit two villages with many a tale of persecution to tell. Day 3. The Royalist Stronghold. 15.5 miles -23 kms You walk the heart of Protestant Country to Collet de Deze, a Royalist garrison from where orders for burnings and persecutions were commonplace. Day 4. The Battle of Chompdomergue. Options from 10 miles-15 kms. Walk the battlefield, where Jean Cavalier, future leader of the Camisards, won his spurs and visit a village that was cleared of its inhabitants even before battle commenced. Day 5. The Burning of Lespinas.8 miles - 12kms. You visit a village that was cleared of its inhabitants and raised to the ground even before battle commenced. 
Day 6. War Breaks Out. 11 miles-16 kms. The Abbot of Chaïla was assinated at Pont de Monvert on July 24, 1702, marking the beginning of the war. Visit the location after a stimulating walk to the point from where the Rebels marched on the town. Day 7. To Florac. 17.5 miles-26 kms. A memorable panorama of Camisard Country as you walk the alpine-mediterranean watershed before descending into the fortified Protestant stronghold. Day 8. The Conflict Ends. And so does a memorable walking tour in France! Transfer to Alès. Note: as part of our policy of continual review and improvement, we reserve the right to make alterations to our walking tours in France. 3. Accommodation
You stay in seven different places en route and a variety of accommodation options: family-run hotels, auberges and chambres/tables d'hotes. These are your seven overnight stops: 1. Alès; 2. Vialas; 3. Collet; 4. Saint Frézal; 5. St Maurice:6. Pont-de-Monvert;7. Florac. 4. What's Included
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