In an exceptional site at the gates of the village of Aubrac, La Colonie has countless windows on its façade — a good thirty! — which are all marks of a hotel past, which in turn testifies to a long tradition of accommodation on the massif Central plateaus, at an altitude of more than 1000 m. Built on the route of an ancient Roman road, the via Aggripa, the village of Aubrac saw the foundation of a place of welcome for pilgrims of Santiago de Compostel as early as 1120, on the initiative of Adalard, pilgrim from Flanders. There, among the endless pastures that dominate the beech forest on the side of the plateau, rare constructions constitute the milestones of the passage of men, facing the bare horizon under the sky without any limits other than clouds.