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The commune

Villefranche de Panat is a commune of 800 hearts in the canton of Rooms-Curan (Aveyron - the Midday-Pyrenees, France). The borough, located at 720 m of altitude, has a direct opening on an exceptional natural environment (Tourist office). At the same time agricultural, commercial and tourist commune (there is a lake) the borough consists of two centers distant from a small kilometer. In the Villefranche valley where one finds, under the stopping, a very active center all the year. of each with dimensions of the brook bordered of dwelling houses one finds gathered the town hall, the doctor, pharmacy the veterinary surgeon and the trade. Over the height, Besse Vors is dominated by the church surrounded by a convent of sisters and the private school, dwelling houses, a family lodging house and a little further the cemetery. Just between the two, halfway, the village hall and the public school. The center was renovated, a pleasant walk skirts the Alrance river which goes down from the stopping and is thrown in the Tarn with Bush-the-Castle. It is decorated fountains and jets of water and gives an air of freshness laughing in the middle of the houses to the gray roofs of slate or roofing stone. The children have the authorization to sin there. On banks of the lake, allotments make it possible to benefit from interesting sights, two supervised beaches, with including one recently equipped, allow bathes and baths of sun. Pedal boats, boards with veil and center-boards light are available. Hotels, a VVF, a vacation village of the army, bungalows, lodgings rural and camp-sites make it possible to accommodate estivants. One can practice sins it along banks of the lake or in the rivers. One also finds grounds to practice football, the play of Quilles of eight (typical of Aveyron), tennis. One can devote oneself to horsemanship ..... Dairies, intelligently hidden village, collect the ewe's milk, prepare it for Roquefort and also manufacture typical fresh cheeses. In the surroundings of the stopping, the commune is strewn with hamlets and farms which constitute places of traditional dwellings harmoniously dispersed for those which like peace.

Fairs take place 4th Thursday of each month. Markets of country have in July place and in August every Friday and Sunday morning. July 14th the fireworks on the lake has acqui a reputation which exceeds the local framework. August 15th the hikers find themselves for a race of famous orientation.

Remarkable places

On the commune a storage reservoir EDF makes it possible to sin and benefit from all the nautical leisures (see characteristic Ci below).

In the vicinity the Dolmen, (close to the Saint-Louis farm on the road of Réquista (on the commune of Lestrade), footpath) arranged, preserved well and easy from access, dates the occupation from the places as of prehistory.

The tower of Peyrebrune (on the commune of Alrance), recently restored, dominates the lake and shows that the area was active since the Moyen-âge (Possibility of visits the summer, and on RDV of except season).

Situation

Paris 750 km. - By Train: Stations of Rodez (45km) then taxi, of Millau-Viaduct (45km) then taxi, by the road of Millau: D911 and D30, or of Albi D 903, Rodez N88 and D902 with Primaube, by plane: airport of Rodez.

Dam Villefranche de Panat

It belongs to a complex of several stoppings EDF on the area of the Lévézou. It is located in the valley of Alrance and also receives water since the Lake Pareloup (hydroelectric station). It is intended to feed a hydro-electric factory located in the valley of the Tarn at Truel.

Below some data concerning the stopping:

Construction

Years of construction: 1948-1951 Startup: 1951

Description

Type of stopping: concrete weight Nature of the foundations: mica schists, schists

Characteristics

Height on foundations: 23,00 m Length in peak: 332,00 m Thickness in peak: 2,70 m Thickness in foot: 29,00 m Volume of the stopping: 31.500 m3

Hydrology

River: Alrance Surface catchment area: 43,00 km ² Surface of reserve (with RN): 1,92 km ² Volume of reserve: 10,90 hm3

Documentation

Works relating to Villefranche de Panat exist: - " Villefranche-of-Panat, Old country house of the Lévézou " of Joseph FABRE OF MORLHON. - " SALLES-CURAN, Alrance, Curan, Villefranche-of-Panat" collection Al CANTON S direction Christian-Pierre BEDEL - " Daniel CROZES guides you in Aveyron" of Daniel CROZES

Friendly is present in Paris and organizes animations twice a year: a meal/quine at the end of the year and a meal/traditional dances in spring. This Friendly is member of the National federation of Friendly Aveyronnaises FNAA which manages a written documentation, video as of the CD-ROMs of the files of Aveyron which make it possible to consult in Paris the registers of marital statuses.

Personalities born in Villefranche de Panat

Antoine de Morlhon: Achevêque of Auch;

Auguste de Morlhon: Bishop of the Puy-en-Velay builder of the monumental statue of the Virgin at the top of the rock Crow;

External bonds

Villefranche de Panat on the site of the IGN:

Statistical data on the population at the time of the census of 1999:

bonds concerning the stopping:

bond stopping with photograph:

Bonds concerning tourism IF:

Bond with the Green Stations:

genealogical bond with a family originating in Villefranche de Panat:

bond with the Federation of Friendly Aveyronnaises:

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