Vénéjan is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

Located on the right bank of the Rhone river, it was already occupied during the Gallo-Roman.

In the Middle Ages, however, a village developed on a hill around a castle and a Romanesque chapel, dominating the path to Pont-Saint-Esprit.

Until the sixteenth century, family succession at the head of the lordship governing these lands. One illustrious nobles, Louis Grignan wife Margaret, daughter of the Marquise de Sevigne, and in the eighteenth century, the stronghold of Vénéjan is even sold twice.

The hilltop village grows again, this time in the plain, in the twentieth century when operates the Marcoule nuclear center about ten kilometers south, and when part of the municipality of land converted to viticulture.

Labeled "Small town character Occitan", the historic heart of Vénéjan nevertheless preserved a heritage and a picturesque charm. With its environment that will delight hikers, especially the town of nearly 1300 inhabitants is a pleasant stop during a stay between Provence and Luberon.