Peyre is located entirely within the Regional Natural Park of Grands Causses, on the right bank of the Tarn, 9 km downstream of Millau.
Backed by the steep slope, the village seems to hang the colorful cliffs of the Causse Rouge, is the tenth village of Aveyron who awarded the "Most beautiful villages in France".
In the 19th century, a mammoth skeleton was discovered in a cave with Paleolithic furniture and a hook of the Bronze Age.
