Some history ...  

Recent city about 170 years, it is one of the first town that was built because of the industry.At the beginning, we found there swamps, the domain of Lassalle and three villages: St Roch, Vialarels, St Michel.  
 
Duke Decazes, ambassador of Louis the 18 in England, with the help of François Cabrol iwill implant the steel industry in Decazeville by the English-style method: make cast iron with some coal and some iron ore. It is the birth of the industrial revolution in Decazeville and its region where we begin to work in subterranean galleries.
The first casting of cast iron takes place n the site of La Forézie (near Firmi) for Christmas in the year 1828. Later, the factory is moved in the locality of Lassalle. Decazeville becomes town in 1834 and takes the name of its founder. The city knows important days (in 1842 it is the most important steel factory in France) and it is rapidly growing until 1855, dates in which the treaty of free exchange signed with England caused a very long metallurgy national crisis
The exploitation of the opencast mine, the"Découverte", began in 1892. At the end of the 19th century with the modernization of equipments and the first World War we see a net revival, but the metal industry declines little by little, after the war. Subterranean galleries are abandoned in 1966. So, The work was made on the opencast mine, " the Découverte" which became the biggest exploitation of this type in France (3,7 km long, 2,5 km wide, 250 m of depth). Today, the activity is definitively finished since 2001, but the city is very marked by its mining past. The site of the "Découverte" is under rehabilitation

Situated on a plateau with many panoramas, Almont Junies is the capital of the estofinado: gastronomic speciality of this area made with dried cod ("stockfish" from Northern Norway) and potatoes flavour with garlic, parsley and ail.
Discovery : panoramas on the Lot Valley, place about stockfish and estofinado, footpaths  (GR 65), local fete of the harvest field in July.

Situated in the Lot Valley between the plain of Livinhac le Haut and the gorges of La Roque ; it is the old see of a prory of the Bishops of Rodez. This old village which dominates the valley is an haven of greeness and coolness. Of the castle, built in the Middle Ages to watch "the trade road of the Lot", there is only a tower with a very beautiful romanesque door.
The modern Church St Joseph (1964), was realised by the architects Vidalenc and Paszkiewiez with a very beautiful modern Christ and a baptistery. In front, there is a cross of the 16th.
Discovery : the Cross of Glassworkers, realized with glasses from the glass factory (created in 1840 in thisvillage), the locks of Boisse Penchot and Roquelongue, the cross of Millagues (highlight at 461 m on St Jacques's roads), municipal swimming pool in summer, area of leisure activities along the Lot river, footpaths, fishing, nautical jousts.

Old viguerie of the 10th century mentioned in 839 in a donation of Pépin of Aquitaine in the abbey of Figeac dependent of the Pagax's Lord and of the Conques Priory. Flagnac dominates the Lot Valley. It is a region of pasture, mixed farming and cereal.
Discovery : St Martin church (Romanesque choir of the 11-12th with chapiters, Gothic nave of the 15th with emblazoned keystones, beautiful wooden Christ, popular paintings, reliquary silver ostensoir of the 15th (classified), pietà of the end of the 16th, two medieval statues, cross of the 19th and chapel of the cemetery - 1492) ; Griffoulière Castle built in the 19th (square shaped with 4 turrets) ; panorama on the Gironde Castle, Port d'Agrès and Livinhac le Haut ; sound and light show "Hier un village" (rural life at the beginning of 20th interpreted by the citizens) ; Pagax Castle (Historical Monument) : chapel built in1327, castle of the 16th with 3 towers ; Agnac : village structured in fortified village ; leisure area near the Lot, :canoe, kayak, pedal boat, footpath, fishing, market on saturday mornings in summer..

Situated in a meander of the Lot Valley, the village dominates the valley which forms a meander where the market gardening is very developed there. The tile roofs replace those of slates and announce the influence of the Midi region. The village used to be a port on the Lot, from 924.
Discovery : Marcenac Castle of the 15-16th (private) : vestige of towers, church of 12th reworked in the 19th which enclosed beautiful crown nose cones with chapiters, market garden productions, gastronomy: estofinado, Laroque Bouillac: old village in a confined gorge of the Lot, the area of leisure activities along the Lot river, footpaths (GR 65), fishing.

4km from Livinhacle Haut, this village situated in a confined gorge of the Lot, hold on a abrupt slope.
Discovery: group of overlayed houses (of the 15th) dominated by the steep slope, ruins of the castle (10th), the old property of "De Laroque Bouillac" and see of an important barony in 1901, church of the 18th with beautiful silver cross processional of 15th and its St Clair relic, fishing.

It is a strange unique village for its double identity. St Santin is situated on two departments: Cantal and Aveyron and on two regions : Midi-Pyrénées and Auvergne. So, we discover here two kind of architecture.
Discovery : Saint Julien de Piganiol (church of the 16th and old convent of the 17th which roofs have attic windows of typical Cantal architecture, Brandalac Castle (18th) with oblong shaped and a round and a square tower, La Bessière ou l'Hôpital : vestige of a old chapel which was the see of a Saint Jean de Jérusalem commandery, footpaths, products from farm.