Salagou Lake, Languedoc, France

This is the sort of attraction that there is so much to say about, that its quite tricky to know just where to start. Ill try to start at the beginning which seems logical enough, to a time before it existed, as this is a man made lake. The Salagou was originally a stream which led to the river Herault. Both would regularly overflow after heavy rainfalls, flooding the roundabout villages several times a year, whilst the territory to the west, suffered from constant draughts and dryness, making the earth uncultivable. In 1958, the decision was taken to build a dam, and flood the bottom of a ... more