Abstract : Can we still talk about rurality in the case of the touristic and now very urban mountains ? Yes, if we consider the rurality not as the exclusive nature of a space or a social group (even a society) which wouldn't be urban (according to the classic opposition between the rural and the urban), but as a specific relation between individuals or groups and their natural space, which then can be observed in a urban context, urban in a surface. A degree of rurality of a local society, and of its territories, depends on the diversity of the sociospatial system, the diversity of the rural uses and the forms of management of the natural space. This degree of rurality, which is estimated by the observation of marginal uses from the prevai...