CENTRE HISTORIQUE DE LANGOGNE
The town of "Lingonia" was founded at the end of the 10th century by Viscount Stephen. If today Langogne is more than a thousand years old, it still has a singular architecture and many remarkable buildings such as the church dedicated to Saint Gervais and Saint Protais, an 18th century wheat market and a spinning mill with 19th century machinery.
In the 10th century, the power of the Counts of Gévaudan weakened. Viscount Etienne then became the great feudal lord, and founded a monastery of Benedictines in "Lingonia" (Langogne). Monks from the Monastier en Velay took charge of this monastery. Ravaged during the Wars of Religion, there are no remains of it.
The architecture of the town is particular, the plan is circular, it is the only example of this urbanism in Lozere with Saint-Etienne-Vallée-Française.
The remains of an old wall with six towers that once protected the town remain: "the little town tour". One of the towers now houses the Town Hall and the others have become dwellings.
In the heart of the town is a Romanesque church rebuilt in the 15th century which contains a 17th century Virgin Mary: Notre-Dame-de-Tout-Pouvoir
On the market square, there is a wheat market built in the 18th century with a roof made of lauzes du Tournel.
