Le Pont de Montvert- a quaint french village.

The Knights Hospitaller lived here.

In the 17th century it remained a local centre of French protestants - also known as the Huguenots.

Pont-de-Montvert is a pleasant little village we strolled through, with traditional granite buildings and a central stone bridge over the Tarn River. A tall and once defensive tower now serves as the village clock.

Robert Louis Stevenson passed through Pont de Montvert and this is described in his book "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes" one of the first books apparently to present hiking and camping as recreational pastimes. There is now a "Route Stevenson" for hikers which takes them through the higher pastures. 

We picked up our fresh bread from the Boulangerie of the village where the queue extended out the shop and half way down the road. We bought a Pain au Chataigne and many types of local pate and chestnuts from the local shop.