France, Aubrac Lakes, Natural Regional Park

Aubrac is a town in the southern Massif Central of France. The name is also applied to the surrounding landscape, which is properly called L’Aubrac in French. This is a volcanic and granitic plateau spreading across 1,500 km². The region counts four glacial lakes : lac des Salhiens, lac de Saint-Andeol, lac de Souveyrols and lac de Born. By 1000 BC the Celts had occupied the region. In the period of Roman Gaul, Gaulish tribes called Gabalians (Lozère) and Rutènians (Aveyron) occupied the area. In the early Middle Ages, Gregory of Tours recorded an incident of a Pagan rite at the lake near Mount Helanus.