Selection of the most beautiful monuments in Aveyron

Château fort
12210 Montpeyroux

The Château du Bousquet, built in the 14th century in Montpeyroux in Aveyron, is an ancient restored castle, marked by its defensive architecture and its role on the way to Santiago de Compostela.

Eglise romane
12360 Sylvanès

Sylvanes Abbey, a former Cistercian abbey of the 12th-XIIIth century located in Sylvanes, Occitanie, is an architectural and spiritual jewel, now a cultural centre and a venue for sacred music festivals.

Chemins de Compostelle - Voie du Puy-en-Velay
12470 Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac

The Pilgrim Bridge, built at the end of the Middle Ages at Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac in Occitanie, is an emblematic medieval work on Via Podiensis towards Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, classified at UNESCO.

Chemins de Compostelle - Voie du Puy-en-Velay
12190 Sébrazac

The Estaing Bridge, built between the late 15th and early 16th centuries, is a schist and limestone Gothic bridge crossing the Lot between Estaing and Sébrazac, in Aveyron (Occitanie).

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
12150 Sévérac-le-Château

The castle of Séverac, built in the 13th and 16th centuries, dominates the medieval city of Séverac-le-Château in Aveyron. A fortress transformed into a Renaissance palace, it embodies the feudal and architectural history of Occitanie.

Ferme fortifiée
12100 Saint-Georges-de-Luzençon

The fortified farm of the Brouzes, built in 1491 in Saint-Georges-de-Luzençon (Aveyron), is an exceptional architectural complex of the Larzac, combining agricultural habitat and defence. Ranked historic monument in 1990.

Eglise romane
12200 Martiel

The fortified abbey of Loc-Dieu, founded in the 12th century in Martiel in Aveyron, is an ancient Cistercian abbey transformed into a medieval fortress. Its architecture combines Romanesque, Gothic and defensive styles, in the heart of a lush park of 40 hectares.

Château
12480 Brousse-le-Château

The Château de Brousse, a former castle of the 10th century renovated in the 16th and 19th centuries, dominates Brousse-le-Château in Aveyron. Ranked a historical monument, it illustrates the military architecture of the Rouergue with its walls, towers and seigneurial residence Renaissance.