Located in the Massif Central, the region is mountainous with numerous narrow valleys, making conditions poorly suited to host cities, but well-suited for pastoralism.

[2] Consequently, the landscape of Causses and Cévennes evolved over time to reflect all types of Mediterranean agro-pastoral systems, including silvopasture, transhumance, and sedentary pastoralism.

[3] The founding of these religious orders and development of nearby cities in the surrounding plains throughout the Middle Ages reinforced the agro-pastoral systems, and they are still present in the area today.

In addition, the agricultural advances made by the Knights Templar in the area during the Middle Ages are still operational today, including roof cisterns, ponds, and granaries.

In the relatively open landscape of the Causses, low stone buildings are used for housing sheep during the winter, called les Jasses, and there are many large, limestone farmhouses.

Criterion (vi) was framed as the site "keeps alive the memory of episodes related to the diffusion of French Protestantism, fights with the Catholic Church, and the development of ideas of liberty and freedom".