Peyre

Like a swallow's nest, as one 19th-century writer put it, Peyre clings to the sheer cliff of the Causse Rouge on the right bank of the Tarn, a few kilometres downstream from Millau. Its houses seem stacked one on top of another, and its Occitan name means 'stone'. Once Saint-Christophe de Peyre, it was run by its own consuls and held for the Catholic side in the Wars of Religion.

Highlights

• Houses stacked against the Causse Rouge cliff above the Tarn
• The Tarn valley between Millau and Comprégnac
• Prehistoric sites, including bone breccias studied in the 1860s

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