Villefort (Lozere)

See also: Villefort

Villefort is a common French, located in the department of the Lozere and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. Its inhabitants is called Villefortais.

Geography

Villefort, at the entry of the throats of the Proud , is a calm holiday resort of the Cevennes lozériennes. Located on the old way Regordane, with the foot of the Mount Lozere, stronghold of Châteauneuf de Randon, then barons of Tournel. Very tourist village during the summer period.

The commune is served by the rail on the line the SNCF Nimes - Clermont-Ferrand where in particular passes celebrates it " Cévenol" (Line of the Cevennes).

History

Villefort was an important crossing point, disputed hard during the wars of religion. With the Revolution, Villefort joined the territory of old the Gévaudan to found current the Lozere.

In the the Sixties (1965), the construction of the Bayard dam brought to the commune a new prosperity. The construction of the dam Villefort was however painful: indeed, the village close to Bayard was demolished before being absorbed by the floods of the Proud one.

Administration

Demography

Heraldic

Places and monuments

  • Stopping and retained of Bayard on the Proud : from a surface of 127 hectares, from a capacity of 37 million m ³, it feeds the hydroelectric factory of Foot-of-Limits.
  • railway Viaduct on Proud (conceived by the engineer Charles Dombre) the
  • Castle of Castanet, with the point of the lake on the road of Mende
  • View-point of Chassezac, with Guard-Guerin, on the road of Langogne
  • Villefort is in the peripheral zone of the National park of the Cevennes

Famous characters related to the commune

See too

  • Common of Lozere
  • Régordane Way or Way of St Gilles
  • GR700

External bonds

  • Villefort in Lozere
  • Country of Villefort in photographs
  • Site of the tourist office of Villefort
  • Villefort and its neighborhoods in photograph

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