Fabulous Sunday market, everything you could want for there, great cafes and restaurants round about for food and refreshment and spectacular wine festival. This is what it is all about!!

Some history...
Benedictine monks cleared the banks of the Vernazobres river from the VIII century on the current site of Saint Chinian and planted vineyards. Throughout the ancien régime, the area suffered from the feudal conflicts between village communities and abbots and subsequently from the wars of religion. After the revolution, cloth manufactures and tanneries declined slowly until they were totally destroyed in 1875 by large floods. This resulted in a return to farming and vines, less infected by phylloxera than other areas. Since then, in the Saint Chinian area, wine is the focus. The efforts to improve the quality of local wines driven in the fifties by Jules Milhau led to the classification of Saint Chinian as an A.O.C. in 1982.