G & C

The place

Occitanie & Languedoc

Wine estates among the vines, Roman stone around Nîmes, the walls of Carcassonne and a long Mediterranean shore, from the Rhône to the Pyrenees.

July works here with a little planning.

The light

How the light falls there

This is Mediterranean light — hard and white at midday, honey-coloured on old stone and vines in the evening — and Montpellier is one of the sunniest cities in France. After the tramontane the sky is swept clean and the hills stand out sharp. At midsummer the sun sets around half past nine; the hour before it belongs to portraits among the vines.