8th century – Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert
In 804, saint Guillaume (‘saint Guilhèm’ in langue d’oc), the count of Toulouse and Duke of Aquitaine, founded an abbey here at a time when the valley was virtually uninhabited, hence its appellation “desert”.
11th Century – Le Pont-du-Diable
Constructed by Benedictine monks in the first half of the 11th century, it provided a link between the abbey at Aniane and the Gellone Abbey at Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert.