Les Luminières

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Hidden under the vegetation are remains that look like a mediaeval fortress and tell the adventure story of coal mining.

This path leading to Le Simonet’s headframe (mine tower) shows you the traces of an ingenious system for transporting coal, whose remains still cling to the slope. From the ghost hamlet of Les Luminières, you have a good view over these vestiges of open-cast coal mining from the 20th century. Le Simonet’s headframe takes centre stage among the pine trees, overlooking a vertiginous inclined plane.

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Recommandations

For your own safety and to preserve the site, you must stay on the marked path

Information desks

Tourism office Cévennes Tourism, La Grand-Combe

Maison du mineur, rue Victor Fumat, 30110 La Grand-Combe

http://www.cevennes-tourisme.fr/contact@cevennes-tourisme.fr 04 66 52 32 15

This office is part of the National Park's associated tourist-information network, whose mission is to provide information on, and raise awareness of, the sites and events as well as the rules that must be observed in the National Park's central zone.
Open year-round

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Access and parking

From Florac or Alès on the N106 to La Haute-Levade (in the municipality of Sainte-Cécile d’Andorge)

Parking :

Public car park in La Haute Levade

Source

CA Alès Agglomération

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