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{{short description|French national park in Lozère, Gard, Ardèche and Aveyron}}
{{Infobox protected area
| name = Cévennes National Park
| alt_name = ''Parc national des Cévennes''
| iucn_category = V
| photo = La ferme caussenarde - Hyelzas --photo aspheries-00342.jpg
| photo_alt = 
| photo_caption = [[Causse Méjean]]
| photo_width = 
| map = France#France Occitanie
| relief = 1
| map_alt = 
| map_caption = 
| map_width = 
| location = [[Lozère]], [[Gard]], [[Ardèche]] and [[Aveyron]], [[France]]
| nearest_city = [[Florac]]
| coordinates = {{coords|44|11|38|N|3|34|53|E|display=inline, title}}
| area_km2 = 937
| established = 2 September 1970
| visitation_num = 
| visitation_year = 
| governing_body = Parcs nationaux de France
| world_heritage_site = 
| url = http://www.cevennes-parcnational.fr/
}}
{{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site
| WHS         = The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape
| Image       = Causse Mejean, Cevennes National Park, France.jpg
| Caption     = Causse Méjean in Massif Central, Cévennes National Park, France
| Criteria    = Cultural: iii, v
| ID          = 1153
| Year        = 2011
| Area        = 302,319 ha
| Buffer_zone = 312,425 ha
}}
'''Cévennes National Park''' ({{langx|fr|Parc national des Cévennes}}) is a [[List of national parks of France|French national park]] located in [[Southern France]], in the mountainous area of [[Cévennes]].

Created in 1970, the park has its administrative seat in [[Florac]] at [[Florac Castle]]. It is located mainly in the [[Departments of France|departments]] of [[Lozère]] and [[Gard]]; it also covers some parts of [[Ardèche]] and [[Aveyron]], therefore stretching across a record number of departments for a national park. The [[Aven Armand]] cave is located in the park. In 2011, the Park was made a part of The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1153|title = The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape}}</ref>

== Geography ==
[[image:PNC map-fr.svg|frameless|Map of the Cévennes National Park, showing in red the central protected zone and, in green, the area encompassed by the park.|400px]]

The park includes several mountains and plateaus, including: [[Mont Lozère]], [[Mont Aigoual]], [[Causse Méjean]], [[France]]. Mont Lozère is the highest peak in the area, reaching 1,699 metres.

== History ==
The Cévennes country is rich in history, with a strong cultural identity, being at the heart of [[Camisard]] revolt, which followed the revocation of the [[Edict of Nantes]] (the [[Edict of Fontainebleau]]), after which Protestants were actively persecuted.<ref>Antoine Court de Gébelin (2009), ''Histoire des troubles des Cévennes ou de la guerre des camisards sous le règne de Louis le Grand'', reprint of the original text published in 1760. Editions Lacour-Ollé, Nîmes (in French)[https://books.google.com/books?id=XzpN2ogA1RkC]</ref> Numerous testimonies of Camisard war in the Cévennes abund in towns and villages of the Cévennes National Park. A permanent exhibition devoted to the memory of Camisards has been elaborated at the old temple of Le Rouve (commune of [[Saint-André-de-Lancize]]).<ref>[http://templedurouve-english.asso-web.com The first Camisards and freedom of conscience] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130716215730/http://templedurouve-english.asso-web.com/ |date=2013-07-16 }}.</ref>[[File:Temple du Rouve.jpeg|thumb|The temple of Rouve Bas: today desacralized, it is a memorial devoted to the Camisard war in Bougès mountains (Cévennes)]]

== Points of interest ==
* [[Arboretum de Cazebonne]]
* [[Aven Armand]]

== See also ==
* [[List of national parks of France]]
* ''[[Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes]]'' (1879) by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]
* [[Flora of the Massif central]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.cevennes-parcnational.fr/ Official Site] (English, French) https://web.archive.org/web/20040211160840/http://www.bsi.fr/pnc/ (in French)
* [http://www.regordane.info Regordane Info - The independent portal for The Regordane Way or St Gilles Trail. The Regordane Way crosses The Cévennes] (in English and French)

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[[Category:National parks of France]]
[[Category:Biosphere reserves of France]]
[[Category:Geography of Ardèche]]
[[Category:Geography of Aveyron]]
[[Category:Geography of Gard]]
[[Category:Geography of Lozère]]
[[Category:Protected areas established in 1970]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Occitania (administrative region)]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Aveyron]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Gard]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Lozère]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Ardèche]]
[[Category:International Dark Sky Reserves]]