country Vaour A medieval land
The picturesque Gorges de l'Aveyron on the outskirts of the Forest Grésigne, valleys of vineyards in the Gaillac lush valleys or Cérou Bonan, the country offers a Vaour great diversity of landscapes.
Here, nature plays except for the delight of lovers of fauna and flora, and the lovers of outdoor leisure nature or sports thrills.
These landscapes shaped by man and nature over time still bear the imprint of those who inhabited from prehistoric to modern times (caves, dolmens, hill forts, bridges, crosses, wash houses, fountains, pigeon, mills, chapels ...)
Our charming sleepy villages and sometimes spectacular, seduce lovers of old stones and historical places (castles, medieval Templar Commandery, castrum, churches, museum, site Cathar ...)
Vaour
Vaour was the seat of one of the top command posts of the Templars. Around 1160, monks soldiers present for fifteen years in the area, then seek a place to locate the seat of an Order and choosing Vaour, crossroads of routes of Saint Antonin Noble Val in Gaillac and Albi Penne , the site offers a panoramic view of the mountains of Auvergne, the Pyrenees and the Cevennes to the plains of the Albigenses. This fortress here included several buildings arranged around two courtyards.
Vaour On leaving, heading for Saint Antonin Noble Val, a of the largest dolmens Quercy advocates the middle of this intersection, a witness of past peoples.
Marnaves
Marnaves The village is situated in the valley to 185 m Cérou and was built on a small promontory,
probably to avoid the damage of raw river .
It is made of beautiful stone houses built in the country. The church of Saint-Médard is located in the center of the village bell tower was destroyed by lightning was rebuilt in 1884.
50 meters from the village on Road Vaour can find a beautiful laundry dating from 1894, recalling the time when the washer to wash their clothes Marnaves come and share some impressions.
Milhars Milhars is a small medieval village essentially organized to control the entry of the valleys of Cérou (passage between the Quercy and the Albigenses) and Bonnan (access to Grésigne).
side stones, these constructions snail, hung on a small rocky outcrop below a restored castle in 1630. We name often "village walls."
Picturesque ruins testify to its rich past walls in a horseshoe with beautiful relieving arches and fortified doors.
Roussayrolles Roussayrolles In the village, the small church of Our Lady of Roussayrolles (building of XIIIth century) houses since 1952 frescoes by one of the great masters of the icon Nikolai Greschny.
The Greschny
belong to a lineage of fresco and icon painters of the fourteenth century that transmit their tradition
from father to son.
St Michael Vax Around the fifth century, monks from probably the Vere Valley, settled in a cave in a ravine and gave it the name of Combe St Michel.
The first Lord of Combe St Michel was the Sir Caussae or Caussac.
The castle built by Blanche of Castile (between 1200 and 1250) was responsible for building the village.
was a fortress with four towers. The Lord St Lacombe Michel was born there in 1753 and died there in 1812.