 These soils make way in the west to the sandstones and schistes of the crystalline plateau of the Lévézou, and the humid chestnut woods.It is deeply cut by valley of the river Muse, and tributary of the Tarn.The village is in the ancient province of Rouergue

The village was mentioned in the eleventh century when in 1070, "Aicfred de Lévezou" donated the village church of St Michel to St Victor's abbey in Marseille, so they could set up a priory.A spring was found in the crypt that had medicinal properties.