Between the Monts de Lacaune and Rouergue, a few kilometres north of the village of Lacaune, runs the ancient roadway linking Lodève to the Cahors region.
This route was called " l'Estrade " (the platform, the dais), or the " Route of Haute Guyenne. "
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In Lacaune, the " masel " constitutes an old family tradition, pork meat representing in rural areas the main portion of meat in the diet. Since the Middle Ages, numerous decrees and municipal orders also attest to the importance of rearing.
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Exchanges between the Monts de Lacaune region and the lower Languedoc have existed then since Antiquity.
However, starting from the middle of the 19th century, at a time when the expanding vineyards of the lower Languedoc region had a strong need for a labour force, the exchanges between these two regions intensified ...continued