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Randonnée de la Croix de Curlet |
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This is a quite short walk on foot in summer, on snowshoe in winter, divided in varied parts: at the beginning, a descent towards the river through a small typical hamlet, followed by an ascent through larches, and the crest at the end, from which the panorama spreads all over the region.
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Le Sentier du Patrimoine à Puycelci |
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The route (Sentier du Patrimoine = Patrimony Path) goes near the Regional Conservatory Orchard (Verger Conservatoire National), the Department farm of Roc, and runs along the brook Audoulou up to reach the summit of Grésigne forest. The path, situated in an area sheltered from wind, will lead you from Puycelsi rocks to a thermophilous vegetation, through a forest with the highest oaks in Midi-Pyrénées (French southwestern region). This hike ...
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Randonnée du Lac des Bariousses |
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This hike starts from Bariousses Lake, situated at foot of the plateau of Monédières. You will enjoy several panoramas that will make you discover the beautiful village of Treignac, officially registred as one of the Most Beautiful Villages in France (Plus Beaux Villages de France).
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Sentier viticole des Grands Crus d'Eguisheim |
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The vineyard path ("Sentier viticole" in French) will lead you to discover the wine and the vineyard of Eguisheim, in detail and in an unusual way. With the help of explanatory panels distributed along the route, you will get to know the 7 Alsatian types of vines. Some others panels present the work of wine growers. You will discover two great wines, Eichberg and Pfersigberg, with their relative geology and sun aspect of the vineyard. You will ...
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Les taillées piétonnes du marais de la Seudre |
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In this hike you will discover the fishing port and the Seudre Swamp, which has focused its activity to oyster culture. You can go into an area with a particular patrimony and a chequered landscape, through a maze of narrow pedestrian paths, called "taillées piétonnes", which are dikes formerly used to produce salt. The village owns also an historic patrimony: XIVth century halls, fortified Romanesque church, and picturesque alleys. Because of ...
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Randonnée autour de Larressingle - La Carcassonne du Gers |
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Larressingle, in Gers Department, is a beautiful medieval town built at the top of a hill. In this hike, you will walk on the tracks which surround the fortified village, and you will enjoy the landscape of this place, its thousand colours blended with natural fragrances...
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Randonnée d'Eus au prieuré de Marcevol |
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Starting from Eus, one of the Most beautiful Villages of France, go to discover Catalan landscapes on the right bank of the river Têt. Noteworthy tourist sites: Eus and its two churches, steep streets with stair, Arboussols and Prieuré de Marcevol, jewel of Catalan patrimony.
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Le chemin du Paradis |
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The Way of Heaven, "Le Chemin du Paradis" in French, deserves well its name... People walk on it nowaday for leisure and for enjoying exceptional views. This mule track connects the village of Gourdon with the hamlet of Pont-du-Loup. You can walk in Gourdon, classified "Plus Beaux Villages de France" (Most Beautiful Villages in France), stroll in the alleys, and visit the church and the castle that the building goes back to the IXth, XIIth and XVIIth centuries.
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Un village et son château, entre Loire et troglodytes |
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Situated at the intersection of the historic territories of Anjou and Touraine, Montsoreau is a typical village with a castle sourrounded with steep streets and roads lined with Tuffeau-stone guardrails. As Montsoreau, Turquant is a village where, traditionally, people use to live on wine production, and which presents remarkable troglodytic houses dug in the hillside of the locality Grande Vignolle. Along this hike, marked out in blue, you will ...
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Randonnée de la Chapelle de Saint-Sernin du Bosc |
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You will go on Santiago de Compostela's way, walking on steep paths, through forests of downy oaks, with, as a reward, the discovery of the chapel of Saint-Sernin du Bosc in the magnificent site of "Combe du miel", and the beautiful dovecote in Chartron.
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Hikes in the Most Beautiful Villages
