Travel Guide Milhars

The gateway to the Tarn. Here the roots of civilization are deep. From the time of "polished stone" (between 2 500 and 5 000 years before Jesus Christ) a human life existed, proof of the Dolmen of the Roc of the Virgin on the Pech Blazy and the Dolmen of Grézelles. The Romans called a "Milliacum" mileage, which became Milhars, on a route linking Béziers to Cahors by the Toulouse, the Albigensians, the Rouergue and Quercy by the gués of Cérou and Aveyron. The, plural of the Occitan word "milhar" meaning "millet field" or according to Roman origin "milliacum" which means "mileage".