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On 23 September, France celebrates food with the Festival of Gastronomy.   It is the perfect occasion to give you the top 10 gastronomic specialities in Aveyron !   1. Aligot   Who still doesn’t know about aligot ? This very special mash potatoes  with « tome fraîche » from Laguiole !   Aligot recipe     [...]

Writer Vanessa Couchman has visited Belcastel and she tells us of her experience in the « Plus Beaux Village de France »   The Aveyron Département has the highest concentration of plus beaux villages in the whole of France. They are outstanding examples of local architecture, in a beautiful or imposing site and unspoilt by the ravages [...]

You are coming to Aveyron for your holidays? Here are a few ideas to have fun with all the family !   • Visit a château and become a knight at the château de Calmont d’Olt • Enter in the world of insects at Micropolis • Have a tasting in a farm • Learn all [...]

In Aveyron, you will find more than a hundred castles. If you cannot visit all of them, you can admire them during walks, alongside country lanes. Still, more than 50 are open to visits and among these, 23 are a little different.   They are part of the Route des Seigneurs du Rouergue or the [...]

      Aligot certainly does come from the Aubrac. You don’t know what it is yet? Well, it’s a spectacle; Imagine the scene, you are in a buron on the vast Aubrac plateau. Perhaps it’s cold outside, you’ve just finished a long walk on snow shoes and you sit down at a table next [...]

The Great Sites of Midi-Pyrénées in Aveyron The Aveyron possesses several sites classified “Grands Sites Midi-Pyrénées” that are the ideal places to start discovering the département, its heritage, its culture and its art de vivre. A « Grand Site » is a place that is emblematic, grandiose or intimate, a land of cultural sharing in an exceptional [...]