Mauguio is a town of more than 17,000 inhabitants and takes its place in Occitania, in the department of Hérault. It is located on the outskirts of Montpellier, on the banks of the Etang de l'Or, on the edge of Aigues-Mortes. Its seaside resort, Carnon, offers a beautiful maritime façade on the Mediterranean Sea. Formerly called Melgueil, the town of Mauguio was an important county town in the Middle Ages. Amputée of some of its districts in the middle of the XIXe century to create the city of Palavas-les-Flots, it is today an important tourist site of the region appreciated especially for its beaches. At the gates of the Camargue, Mauguio still unveils today a modest architectural heritage, but above all dream landscapes that attract every year a large number of tourists eager to enjoy the calm of the Mediterranean Sea.