Valley of the Aveyron
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Thirty-seven kilometres south of Figeac, Villefranche-de-Rouerge lies on a bend in the River Aveyron, clustered around its perfectly preserved, arcaded market square. From Villefranche the Aveyron flows south through increasingly deep, thickly wooded valleys, past the hilltop village of Najac and then turns abruptly west as it enters the Gorges de l'Aveyron. The most impressive stretch of this defile begins not far east of St-Antonin-de-Noble-Val, an ancient village caught between soaring limestone cliffs, and continues downstream to the villages of Penne and Bruniquel, perched beside their crumbling castles. Bruniquel marks the end of the gorges, as you suddenly break out into flat alluvial plains where the Aveyron joins the great rivers of the Tarn and Garonne.
Pages in section ‘Aveyron’: Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Najac, St-Antonin-Noble-Val, Penne and Bruniquel.
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