Sévérac-le-Château

The 13th-century Château de Sévérac dominates the town.

The mound of Sévérac has been occupied since prehistoric times. Later Visigoths had a fort here, that in 732 fell to the Saracens, but the Franks got it and Charlemagne made of Sévérac the seat of a viguerie.

In 1214 during the Albigensian crusade, Sévérac was stormed by troops led by Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester and Viscount of Albi, Béziers and Carcassonne, who was feared for his ruthlessness and brutality.