Hills where grow the scrubland and pine forests, hillsides where they grow the vine, a 180 ° view over the plain down to Castelnau-de-Guers then to Agde and its beaches, this is the natural environment in which Tourbes was built over the centuries. This is a wine village, 5 km from Pezenas in the heart of the Languedoc vineyards. In the 10th century, this village and its small church named Torves becomes Torreves. In the thirteenth century, King Louis IX, better known under the name of St. Louis, decided to build a church building that will seal imposing its authority in this area newly acquired: it is the church of Saint-Saturnin who became one of the main monuments religious rural communities of the diocese of Béziers and its cathedral.
The tripat is the specialty of Tourbes, you can taste at large convivial meals usually organized by village associations.
