Aubrac

Aubrac and the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacob de Compostelle

The first names which come us to mind are the stages cities of the Via Podiensis of the Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle:

Aumont-Aubrac
Malbouzon
Rieutort-d' Aubrac
Marchastel
Nasbinals
Aubrac

Video of the mythical stage per time of snow

The next stage being Saint-Chély-with Aubrac, but before leaving it is necessary to visit the Dômerie d' Aubrac.

Zones Natura 2000 of Aubrac

Aveyron: the central plate of Aubrac Aveyron be born was classified in zone Natura 2000.
Cantal
Lozere

Aubrac in video

History

Formerly Aubrac was called Altobraco, Albracum, Albrac, even Auborac into Of Provence. This place was the stronghold of the Gallic Gabales which according to César was the survivors of Alésia. It was bordered in the south of the plate by the zone of the Rutènes (Rodez). One of the tops of Aubrac, known under the name of Mount-Hélanus, is bordered by a lake, now called Lac of Saint-Andéol, where, according to Gregoire de Tours the inhabitants met each year during a few days, making feast there and throwing offerings with the god of the lake. Under Charlemagne, the priests, always inclined to rest on the pagan practices to propagate their teaching, this worship in substituent a saint with the pagan god perpetuated. This practice lasted until the end of the 19th century when this practice was prohibited.

The village of Aubrac is only the marks of old the Dômerie or Hospital of Aubrac created by the Flemish lord Adalard, with the return of a pilgrimage to Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle. It is located at the south of the plate in the Département of Aveyron and belonged to the commune of Saint-Chély-in Aubrac. Places impossible to circumvent of the Camino frances and the Via Podiensis, they were crossed by thousands of pilgrims towards Saint-Jacques-of-Compostelle, often coming from Conques. The pilgrim, after having endured the roughness of the plate, found himself in Dômerie to be restored and rest there and set out again for Saint-Like-with Olt while descending this sheltered and green valley which leads to Saint-Chély-with Aubrac by crossing the Bridge of the pilgrims there.

To discover

In this mysterious place that is the plate, several names return from the fine bottom of the regional memory, the Hélanus mount and its lake quoted by Gregoire de Tours, like Gaulois famous places of Aubrac and the " rites payens" bound to the Lake. But the Mount-Hélanus would have accommodated a council in its church of Saint-Hilaire? (nothing is proven; only the cross of the three bishops supports this reported fact of the 6th century). As for AD-Silanum or Adsilanum, some locate it at Puech Cremat Bas (it is the current version)…

Here an antithesis on the localization of Adsilanum: a work made on old charts of Bnf and a chart 3D. Each one will be able to compare the two versions. Following this work one from of deduced that famous Roman Voie which is on the GR. 65 with the top them Enfrux, could be a Gauloise way leading to the lake Hélanus place of worship and Gaulois crossroads.

Caption

A legend is related to the Cross of the three bishops, at one hour more in north of the way of Compostelle, draws up this modest cross which delimits the old ones évêchés of Auvergne, of the Rouergue and the Gévaudan, today of the Cantal and the Aveyron, and of the Lozere thus of the Languedoc-Roussillon, the Auvergne and the the Midday-Pyrenees. These prelates had to meet to slice to it murky story of beautiful Tétradie removed with its brutal lord of husband by his Virus cousin. The lord killed Virus but the count of Toulouse married Tétradie, and the husband claimed the dowry. However Tétradie was Languedocienne, Virus Toulouse, and the Auvergnat husband.

Culture

Each year, the last weekend of August, the village of Aubrac accommodates a literary demonstration: Meetings of Aubrac.

Aubrac seen by Julien Gracq

“an attraction without violence, but not easily resistible brings back year by year for me, still and still, towards high naked surfaces, basalts or limestones of the center and the south of the Solid mass: Aubrac, Cézallier, planèzes, causses. All that remains of completely exotic in the French landscape always seems me to be confined there: it is like a piece of continent bald person and abruptly exondé which would make surface above the sempiternal campaigns of the woodlands which are the banality of our soil. Tonsures sacramental, austere, in our hairy arborescent so continuous, images of an almost spiritualized examination of the landscape, which mix indissolubly, to the use of the walker, feeling of altitude and feeling of rise” . Julien Gracq, Aubrac

“monolithic Crosses of basalt of Aubrac, coarse, almost formless, with the head and the arms very short, planted guingois on a simple accumulation of blocks of lava and which seem the outline of a hyphen between the world megalithic and the Christian world” . Julien Gracq, “Large Freedom”, ED. Jose Corti 1946

“Seldom I think of Cézallier, in Aubrac, without being outlined in me a very singular movement which gives body to my memory: on these deployed high plateaus where gravity seems to be reduced as on a sea of the moon, a giddiness horizontal starts in me which, like the other to fall, encourages me to run there, as far as the eye can see, to lose breath” . Julien Gracq, “Notebooks of Main road”, ED. Jose Corti 1992

Tourism

the Aubrac term recovers a bovine race rustic extremely appreciated today.
On an end of the plate the village of Laguiole is famous for its knives.
the festival of the village of Aubrac is the August 15th.
the place lends itself to the gathering in high season… In particular that of the d' Aubrac, left the wild, consumed in Tisane S.

Gallery photographs

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