Camargue - Landscape

In spite of the enormous amount of tourism, parts of the Camargue are still completely isolated and flat. The Camargue (Provençal Camargo) is an area with a thoroughly individual and often quite melancholy character. Over many centuries the Rhône has deposited detritus, sand and soil in its delta, pushing it ever further out into the sea. As a result, the old port of Aigues-Mortes has receded some 5km/3mi from the coastline in the course of some 600 years. While this has been happening in the western part of Camargue, the very opposite has occurred in the southeast; Stes-Maries-de-la-Mer, which was some miles inland during the Middle Ages, is now on the coast!

The part nearest the sea, around the lagoon of the Etang de