Three departments of limestone causse, deep gorges and villages that empty out in winter — Lozère is the least populated department in France. Rocamadour is stacked up a 120 m cliff in three tiers and has been a pilgrimage site since the twelfth century. Conques, on the Way of St James, keeps a gold reliquary statue that has survived since the ninth century. The Tarn gorges cut 500 m into the plateau, crossed at the top by Norman Foster's Millau viaduct, whose tallest mast is higher than the Eiffel Tower. Roquefort's cheese caves are in the same limestone.
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Headline places
What you come to Lot, Aveyron & Lozère for.
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The Millau Viaduct The tallest bridge in the world — one mast higher than the Eiffel Tower -
Gorges du Tarn 500 m deep, 50 km long, and best seen from a canoe -
The Sanctuary of Rocamadour Seven chapels up 216 steps that pilgrims once climbed on their knees -
Conques A Romanesque abbey on the Camino, with Soulages' windows in it -
Pont Valentré A fortified bridge with three towers, finished in 1378 -
The Roquefort Caves The only place on earth allowed to make Roquefort, by law since 1411
Cities & bases
Where to sleep inside the area.
The region it sits in
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