Cabrerolles

Situated between the plains and the mountains, the village of Cabrerolles and its castrum are built at the end of a rocky spur separating two deep valleys that open out onto the Béziers plain.

Cabrerolles is made up of five hamlets: La Liquière, Lenthéric, Aigues-Vives, La Borie Nouvelle and Cabrerolles. On the narrow peak overlooking the village, an imposing fortified chapel built around the 10th century and dedicated to Notre-Dame de la Roque, stands out in the landscape, overlooking a fortified medieval complex dating back to the 10th century (the ruins of the old castle), part of which remains as a keep and the surrounding walls. The chapel has a single nave with a barrel vault and a cul-de-sac apse. The building, formerly a parish church, has been abandoned for at least a century (according to travellers' accounts) and the Commune of CABREROLLES has undertaken to restore this monument, a symbol of its heritage and landscape. This strategic point once commanded a trade route that led troops and merchants from the Aveyron through the mountains to the rich Biterrois plain.

Origin of the name: Cabrairole, "the place of goats", derived from the Latin cabra (goats) and the suffix - olis.