- Montpezat-sous-Bauzon The town covers 27 km² which rise 409 meters above sea level plain of Champagne, to 1471 meters above sea level to the summit of Suc de Bauzon. Since prehistory, the village of Montpezat has been built on the natural path that leads from the valley to the Ardèche highlands.
- strategic communication axis for the Romans, it became the must for the carriers which, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century are going to pass through this road all kinds of goods, resulting in the birth of a hotel and major business activity. In 1693, there were 65 inns in the town, not counting the less prestigious hamlets. Pilgrims joining Le Puy to take the road to Santiago de Compostela also stop in the inns and priory of the village. craft also: millers, shoemakers, weavers, bakers, knife makers, farriers, grindings conduct their business in the heart of town which will count up to 3,000 souls in 1876 (Montpezat then feuded with Aubenas....). With the construction of the Chavade road, the arrival of the car and the abandonment of a railway project the village will see its population decline until 1990.
- The geological history is at the rendezvous with five volcanoes:
- The Gravenne, former strombolian cone of 806 meters.
- The Chambon, carved in the base to extract stones cut for the construction of some houses of the village.
- Le Suc de Bauzon, culminating point of the village at 1471 meters.
- The Vestide du Pal is one of the most beautiful and largest craters of European maar.
- Lake Ferrand, a small maar crater filled with runoff.
- You can get at the Tourist Office the topo guides that will allow you to take the hiking trails that lead to these sites.
- The rivers :
- La Fontaulière is the epitome of the Cévenol river: capricious and unpredictable. It takes its source at the entrance to the crater of the Vestide du Pal and flows 24 km further down to Pont-de-Labeaume, under the castle of Ventadour. A hike is also offered to you at the Tourist Office to discover a part of this wild valley, its flora and its small bathing spots. It is also the meeting place for many lovers of fishing.
- La Pourseille, born in the hamlet Pal, it finishes its race 5 km lower by a fall of 32 meters in the Fontaulière, behind the castle of Pourcheyrolles.
