Open the doors to the Roquefort country and get your thrills! Over five days spent walking between causse and rougiers, enjoy beautiful green areas, unexpected tracks and a magnificent medieval heritage that open up to you.This hike which is full of character starts from St Affrique and offers a discovery tour from the sometime harsh landscape of the Causse, up to the lands of the Rougier bursting with colours and promises.Time and people have left their marks along the route: rocky paths, long buissières (narrow passages between two rows of box trees), and sunken paths lined with dry stone walls.You’ll walk along the great geological fracture and the cliffs of the Combalou mount which gave Roquefort its reputation. You will explore the Tournemire and St Paul des Fonts amphitheatres, the Viala du Pas de Jaux Tower, the Cistercian fort of Saint-Jean d'Alcas, the pleasant village of St Félix overlooking the Sorgues valley, the Sylvanès Abbey which is one of the jewels of Cistercian art and the Montaigut castle standing proudly on a rocky spur and towering over the Rougier de Camarès.
Détail sur : site internet de l'Office de Tourisme et sur Occitanie TransportsIl y a une gare routière à Saint-Affrique (ligne 202, 2016, 2018), et une gare sncf à Tournemire (train régional).
This itinerary is located in the World Heritage zone Causses and Cévennes, mediterranean agropastoral cultural landscape.
Place Leclerc ou place Foch à Saint-Affrique
Pour accéder à saint-Affrique, par la A75 , 46 ou 47 puis suivre la D999 en direction de Saint-Affrique / Albi. Arrivée à Saint-Affrique par la D999, depuis Millau, traverser la ville, la place Foch est juste après avoir traversé la Sorgues ; depuis Albi, se diriger vers le centre ville, la place Foch et après le jardin public.
Place Leclerc, Saint-Affrique
Along the Combalou cliffs and the rocky spur of the Montaigut castle, throughout the causse du Larzac and the impregnable Saint-Paul-des-Fonts amphitheatre, by the Viala medieval tower and the Sylvanès abbey, via the Sorgues and the Dourdou valleys, upon trails and into buissières explore a land of character which is the breeding ground for a typical cheese with lots of character to!
Place Leclerc, Saint-Affrique