The Rabbit burrow

the Rabbit burrow is a common French, located in the department of the Aveyron and the area the Midday-Pyrenees. Its inhabitants is called Clapierois.

Geography

The village is located at 640 meters of altitude on a plate which belongs to before causse i.e. at the platform established on limestones, in front of the Larzac causse which follows to the east but is higher from 100 to 200 Mr. the before-causse is very stony in the zone of the Rabbit burrow (geological stage of Sinémurien), from where the name of the place where one observes many dry stone walls of épierrement and stone heap (rabbit burrow = accumulation of stones in occitan). The rise on Causse is done in two levels. In foot of slope one observes a thick layer of marnes black belonging to Toarcien (175 million years); it is striated with claws of erosion so that the dark color of material is locally visible in the meadows. In top of slope the large white cliffs and limestones appear which characterize the edge of Larzac, here the Western part called Guilhaumard . In the precise case, the cliffs belong mainly to Bathonien. All the sector is place of excursion of researchers of whole Europe, for at least two reasons: on the one hand, the black marnes are fossiliferous and deliver a marine animal-life (ammonites, bélemnites…); in addition, the area, since the valley of Sorgue to close Larzac, makes it possible to discover a superb sedimentary sequence which, with some serious gaps, goes from Cambrien in the middle of the Secondary. It is magic to learn geology.

The village of the rabbit burrow is located on the watershed Atlantiques and Mediterranean

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the vault Our-Lady-of-Bouviala not far from the sources of Orb;
the Abyss of the Farmhouse Raynal;
the Country house of the Font and its panorama;
the church Saint Xist (10th century)

Its bell-tower-turn (Xème century), single in the area, draws up its elegant architecture and, a such dumb headlight lost in the middle of the grounds, is used as reference mark for the small hamlet blotti with its feet. Paintings of Nicolas Greschny occupy the totality of the head walls and the chorus. These monumental works represent in 14 boards, Cruxifiction and Resurrection. They still bring to the cultural richness of the place.

the garden of the Priest

the “garden of the priest” who was next to the church and which was in waste land was transformed into a botanical garden with more than 300 medicinal and aromatic plants, from which the reputation starts to extend beyond the area. Its sponsorship by the botanical garden of Montpellier would prove, if it in of it were need, of its quality and its diversity.

the Plate of calcareous Guilhaumard

Plate (karstic) strongly eroded by place (ruiniform chaos, swallow-holes, caves, dolines) formerly wooded of beeches, now reduced to the state of dry lawns.

One meets there:

* a rich flora of more than 1900 species, of which certain endemic and rare;

* a fauna has prone rare (pipit, bunting, trap, tritons, butterflies)

excursions on the plate of Guilhaumard

GR-71: Saint Xist - Pascalerie - Barn of Baldy-Farmhouse Raynal
gr.-71b: Montpaon, by the step Farrat and Panissargues - Saint Rome de Berlières, by the step of Tirecul.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Aveyron

External bonds

Tourist office of Larzac Templier Causses and Vallées
the Rabbit burrow on the site of the national geographical Institute
the Rabbit burrow on the site of INSEE
Localization of the Rabbit burrow on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on the Rabbit burrow on Mapquest

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