Cycling and walking holidays in Aveyron and Cevennes

TARN, AVEYRON, LOZERE and CEVENNES,  Parc des Grands Causses

Albi and Tarn Valley up to Millau.

Millau, Larzac, Tarn Valley, Pays de Roquefort, Gorges du Tarn

Millau and Albi

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Tarn Valley, Between Albi and Millau

Albi, pink city - with a beautiful old brick-built centre, the Toulouse-Lautrec museum and a stonebrick Cathedral - to Millau, in the center of Parc des Grands Causses, you will be moving along Tarn river valley.

Down in the valley between two hilly plateaux rising up to 700m altitude River Tarn flows swiftly to the West through a beautiful valley and by the Raspes du Tarn . You'll see and visit old castles in Brousse-le-Chateau, Coupiac, St.Izaire and pitoresque villages like Ambialet and St.Rome de Tarn to arrive at the viaduct of Millau.

From Millau, a pleasant small Mediterranean alike city, also the gateway to the better known canyons of the Gorges du Tarn and an important centre of activity holidays, you'll start the Tarn Valley walks under the worlds highest viaduct from where you will be heading towards Albi.
From the second half of June the chirring sound of cicades will go all along with you as if you were in Provence.

Pays de Roquefort.

More pictures of Pays de Roquefort in South of Aveyron. South of the Tarn river, water acting on the limestone plateaux created caves, subterranean rivers, gushing springs.The most famous of the caves is now still used for the ripening of sheep cheese: Roquefort, king of cheeses, cheese of kings.

Cycling or walking in Pays de Roquefort you will cross the Causse du Larzac and some Medieval Templars garrisons from where crusades set out in 10th-13th centuries. In the Redlands of Camarès you will visit the Cistercienzer Abbaye de Sylvanès. St.Affrique, a small Southern town, is the starting place of many walks in this walking area.

Gorges and Causses, Cevennes, Gorges du Tarn

East of Millau the Tarn river and its tributaries carved out 4 canyon like Gorges: Gorges de la Dourbie, Gorges de la Jonte, Gorges du Trèvezel and the most famous of all the Gorges du Tarn. These Gorges are at the heart of the most spectacular walking and cycling area of the Grands Causses Natural Parc. Steep crags of 400m and the typical scenery of limestone plateaux dissected by rivers.You'll see the Grotte Rose of Dargilan, the unusual scenery of the Causses (Le Chaos de Montpellier le Vieux and Roques Altes). Your walk begins and ends in Millau or at Château de Creissels.

Tarn valley, Pays de Roquefort and the Canyons of the Gorges and Causses are part of the Parc Naturel des Grands Causses.
Millau lies in the centre of this nature park and is the centre of activity holidays in France. The National park of the Cevennes and the Grands Causses Nature Park are contingent nature parks.