Section 03 · filed 0–4
The Empty Diagonal
The real line across France: Aubrac, the Causses, the Cévennes, and the plateau interior that most people drive through without stopping.
7 guides, emptiest last
Busiest first · emptiest last
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Saint-Flour: The Town on the Planèze
A basalt outcrop above the Truyère, and a lower town nobody climbs out of.
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The Gorges du Tarn From the Bottom
Everyone crosses the viaduct. Almost nobody goes down to the river.
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Why Nobody Goes to the Massif Central
The largest upland in France, skipped for reasons that are also reasons to go.
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Into the Cévennes the Long Way
Enter from the north through the Margeride and the range explains itself differently.
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The Empty Diagonal Is a Real Line, Not a Mood
The band of chronically low density that this whole site is filed along.
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Aubrac: Grass, Granite, Weather
Grass, granite, and weather that is structural rather than incidental.
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A Departmental Road on the Causse Méjean
One road, one plateau, and no attraction at all. That is the entry.
The band on the ground
Map · the interior departments
Lozère44.518N 3.500ECantal45.050N 2.700ECreuse46.080N 2.000E
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