Tourist excursions

     Allow a full day for each of these excursions

 The Bastides of western Aveyron

-         Rodez

-         Belcastel

Classified as one of France’s most beautiful villages. Visit its castle, which dates from the 10^th,

12^th and 15^th centuries, its bridge and its 15^th-century church.

-         Peyrusse-le-Roc

Ghostly ruins on a rocky outcrop.

-         Villeneuve-d’Aveyron

A 13^th-century bastide built around an ancient township with a monastery at its centre.

-         Villefranche-de-Rouergue

An ancient royal bastide, with its Notre-Dame collegiate church and a pleasant street market on Thursday morning.

-         Najac

A bastide which is an extension of the original fortification overlooked by its imposing castle.

-         Sauveterre-de-Rouergue

A perfect example of a typical bastide.

-         Rodez

Albi and Toulouse-Lautrec:

-         Rodez (leaving in the direction of Baraqueville and Naucelle)

-         Camjac

The Château du Bosc, where the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec spent his childhood.

-         The Viaur viaduct

-         Albi

The Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile, the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec and the mediaeval quarter of Castelviel.

-         Cordes

A fortified little town, with a sugar museum.

-         Rodez

The southern Aveyron

-         Rodez

-         Saint-Léons (on the Millau road)

Micropolis, the city of insects

-         Millau

The tallest viaduct in the world (343m high). Views over the Brocuéjouls rest area (A75 motorway) and the Cazalous rest area (on the road to Roquefort).

-   Roquefort

Visit the caves where the famous cheese is made (Roquefort Société or Papillon brands).

-         Rodez

Conques and the Lot Valley

-         Rodez

-         Salles-la-Source

-         Marcillac

An Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée (AOC) wine. Visit a wine-grower (Teulier, Matha or Laurens) or the Cave Coopérative de Marcillac in Valady.

-         Conques

Classified as one of France’s most beautiful villages, Conques is among the best-knownstopovers on the road to Santiago de Compostela. The 11^th- and 12^th-century abbey-church with its celebrated tympanum, which depicts the Last Judgment, and the Pilgrims’ Bridge are on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The painter Pierre Soulages recently designed new stained-glass windows for the Romanesque abbey-church.

-         Entraygues

Its bridge and the Lot Valley.

-         Estaing

Classified as one of the France’s most beautiful villages. Visit its castle and bridge.

-         Espalion

A pretty little town in the northern Aveyron.

-         Bozouls

The “Hole of Bozouls” (a canyon). Terra Memoria, an interactive museum devoted to the geology of the Aveyron.

-         Rodez

Another possibility from Espalion:

-         Saint-Côme-d’Olt

-         Sainte-Eulalie-d’Olt

Two of France’s most beautiful villages.

-         Bozouls

-         Rodez

The Aubrac plateau

-         Rodez

-         Saint-Côme-d’Olt

A mediaeval village with an attractive twisted church spire.

-         Saint-Chély-d’Aubrac

-         Aubrac

The historical heart of the area

-         Nasbinals

-         Saint-Urcize

-         Laguiole

You can visit several workshops where this village’s famous pocket-knives are made. Also worth visiting is the Coopérative Jeune Montagne, where you can taste Laguiole cheese.

-   Rodez

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