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Located between Toulouse, Montpellier and Clermont-Ferrand, Aveyron is
the paradise of the sportsmen. Its secrecy? Its natural framework and
its cordial inhabitants.
The department of Aveyron is the 5th French department with 8 735 km².
Located in the North-West of the Midday-Pyrenees area, this
exceptional territory offers a whole panoply of sports activities for
the greatest pleasure of the visitors who accomplish a stay in
Aveyron.
It is not thus astonishing to see it registered in the destinations of
holidays more the appraisals. Indeed, all is done there to like. It is
like if nature and the men had been given go in this sensational
district to allow a stay of dreams. Thus, the days are synonymous with
sports there, of excursions and country holidays through the lakes and
the forests.
Aveyron with its rich person inheritance invites the tourists to
discover in turn the diversity and the vastness of its landscapes:
- authentic Aubrac with its large plates and the valley of the Batch
which crosses cities and villages: Villefranche de Rouergue,
Entraygues...; - the small valley of Marcillac with its softer climate
is located at the foot of causses. Conches and its abbey forms part of
the stages of the path of St Jacques de Compostelle; - the gorges of
Aveyron is strewn with country houses and castles: Bruniquel, Najac,
Belcastel; - Ségala and Sauveterre de Rouergue, old royal country
house; - the valley of Aveyron and Rodez, prefecture of the
department; - the plate of Lévezou, between large causses and
Ségala, offers a decorated preserved nature of lakes: Parloup,
Bridge-of-Salars, Villefrache-of-Panat, Bage, the Gourd and Holy
Mercies; - gorges of the Tarn, the regional natural reserve of
Large Causses, Millau and its viaduct; - the country of Roquefort
celebrates for its cheese of ewe.
Aveyron, it is thus before all the occasion to leave to discovered
nature. Indeed, since the canyoning was established in this French
area where hydrography is more than important, the amateurs of great
feelings will have the joy of jumping in the deep ones and narrow
canyons, in particular those which revolve around the throats of Tarn,
Dourbie and Aveyron. Moreover, this sport which has the vocation to
make go up adrenalin, forms from now on integral part of the area.
Displayed with the programme of this descent to the "hells": natural
toboggans, vertiginous jumps, watery excursions and obviously
exceptional cascades. And then, once that all these stages are
reached, a turning on the wild rivers of the south of Lozere or the
Cevennes offers a single and paradisiac panorama where only nature is
queen. Thus, after these remarkable falls towards the infinite one,
expatriation is guaranteed with... a small scrubbing in prime.4
Aveyron is also the field of the water sports. Indeed, the 17
stoppings which are in the department support considerably the
practice of the sports activities or leisures on water. To evaluate
the extent of these water levels, will know that they feed 16 power
stations, equivalent to two sections of a nuclear thermal power
station. Thus, one inevitably expects vast lakes and a whole panel of
nautical activities. Impassioned nature thus have very with them, of
immense spaces for the practice of canoe, rafting, water skiing and
kayak etc...
Thus, at the time of holidays in Aveyron, they are not only the
breakage-neck which is burst. Indeed, the least sporting will be able
to leave well to the meeting the barmen who elected residence in the
beautiful medium of the river in their impressive "Buvette canoe" and
the greedy ones to discovered authentic gastronomy aveyronnaise.
As for bitten rise, they will find their happiness in the multitudes
sites of climbing present in the department. That comes from its
somewhat tormented relief which culminates around 1460 m.
In addition, the geography of this department is also favorable for
speleology. Indeed, the underground relief abounds in a whole series
of natural treasures and Aveyron deserves perfectly its qualifier of
"Capital of Causses, the canyons and the caves". The caves are also
present with the Swallow-hole Armand or the cave of Foissac.
Lastly, the territories of Aveyron can be discovered differently than
by the climbing. Horsemanship is one of the extraordinary means to
discover its exceptional landscape. And by the beautiful starlight
nights, the long rides in wood are moments feeric to share in family
or between friends for an exceptional discovery of Aveyron.
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