A few miles from Montpellier, Alès, Uzès, and Nîmes, Sommières is set in a landscape of garrigue whose deep green colour rises in layers towar the blue sky. The winding roads, here and there, go past vineyards like a chessboard.
These garrigues resemble the lines of Racine: a mineral harshness made white-hot by the summer sun. Then, the perspective widens, the hills' sensual curves replace the asperities which tear the sky open. If the landscape keeps its green predominant colour, on the horizon, the hills and the mountains get bluer and bluer. Sommières hides somewhere in this blue hollow...