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Vézins-de-Lévézou

commune in Aveyron, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ1141377 ↗
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Vézins-de-Lévézou (French pronunciation: [vezɛ̃ də levezu]; Languedocien: Vesinh) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France.

The Château de Vézins is an historic castle, first built in 1120 by Vésian de Vézins to command the Lévézou district. Following a disastrous fire in 1642, the only remains of this original castle are the vaulted rooms of the ground floor. The castle was redeveloped in a Renaissance style.

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The public source identifies “Vézins-de-Lévézou” as commune in Aveyron, France. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Vézins-de-Lévézou, commune and Aveyron.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vézins-de-Lévézou” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.