Strolls in the tarn department

City flowered in the middle of the Regional Natural reserve of High-Languedoc, with the foot of the Black Mountain.

Castrate is located at the foot of the black mountain, at an altitude of 172 meters above sea level, with 45 kilometers in the south-eastern south of Albi (prefecture of the Tarn), and with 72 kilometers in the east of Toulouse. Castrate is traversed north in the south by the named river Agout, tributary of the Tarn. Stage on the way of Saint-Jacob, Castres takes its rise at the beginning of IXe century around the abbey of Saint-Benoît cheese. The houses on Agout are then inhabited by the tisserands, dyers, tanners and finishers, affirming the first industrial calling of the city: the textile.

Located at 8km in the east of the city of Castrate in the south of the department of the Tarn, our commune accomodates you within a pleasant framework with the foot of the granitic solid mass of the sidobre. You will practise the pedestrian excursion, in Vtt, fishing in the Agout river. You will taste the gastronomical specialities of the area in our restaurants and will benefit from our lodgings and the camp-site in edge of river. Do not leave without to have discovered the Celtic vestiges and cathares on the site of Holy Juliane (old vault, sarcophagi, tanks and steps)

To discover Sorèze, houses with wood sides and corbelling of 16th and 17th century, the bell-tower St Martin of the 16th century, the house of the park, while passing by the church which shelters a classified organ. To follow the prints of the wheels of tanks, passage of the old Roman way, at Berniquaut, the ancient village. To traverse the hiking trails, with foot, horse or VTT. To join with the edge of the forests and the fields of sunflower the heart of the channel of midday, the lake of St Ironwood. Sorèze is on the way of St Jacques of compostelle and proposes an important inheritance: the abbey-school 17 and 18th century a historic building testifies some. Strong to unpassé intellectual shining, Sorèze testifies to an artistic and cultural dynamism remarkable with in any season a great diversity of animations.

Relaxation envies? What could be better than a good bowl of fresh air in edge of a lake and near a forest. To the foot of the Black Mountain, the Natural Base of the Field of In Laure extends on 32 hectares in the regional Natural reserve from High Languedoc. In addition to the various activities of leisures, it is the starting point of the paths of small excursions which furrow the communal forest of Montaud connecting Labruguière to the GR. 7. HAMLET OF HOLIDAYS Opened of April 1 to October 31 1 lodging of stage for 11 people 3 country cottages with mezzanine for 4 people 4 country cottages of full foot for 5 people LEISURES: Water level for fishing, 35 km of pedestrian paths at the beginning of the Field, plays for the children, paths VTT, tennis (to 800 m, access included/understood in the fixed price of the stay), course of health...