Walks and hikes

"Sire, all the straw in your kingdom wouldn't fill my Ventadour moat". Quote from the Duke of Ventadour. Explore the natural ramparts of the Vigne gorges around the Château de Ventadour and discover the village of Le Moustier, founded around an ancient priory in the 12th century. As you emerge from...

 Moustier-Ventadour

From the village of Nougein to the Pierre levée, in an exceptional natural setting, this interpretation circuit with explanatory panels, offers a discovery of the natural heritage and ancient human activities of the Dordogne gorges. Ruins of mills, watering holes, dryings of old chestnut groves acco...

 Marcillac-la-Croisille

On this same circuit, on 17 July 1998, the German cyclist and great favourite Jan Ullrich won the seventh stage of the Time Trial! He finished the race with a disconcerting ease, clocking an impressive time of 1 h 15 min and 25 s., which allowed him to wear the famous and highly coveted Yellow Jerse...

 Saint-Augustin

La Rongère, Coiral, le Grolier, Libouroux, Lascaux, St-Merd-de-Lapleau, so many hamlets and villages that weave our countryside. If you take a closer look at these beautiful Corréziennes houses, you will discover a brilliant rock, sometimes flaky like a millefeuille, with changing colours, with fine...

 Saint-Merd-de-Lapleau

A route to a unique place: you'll discover Spontour, the last authentic village in the Upper Dordogne Valley. You'll inevitably have to climb back up to get out of this valley... It's time! But the joy is short-lived, as we now have to cross another river: the Luzège. Don't miss this rare view from...

 Saint-Merd-de-Lapleau

It is between the slopes of the streams of the Vine and the Soudeillette on a rocky escarpment, that was built one of the most important and impregnable castles. The fief of the Ventadours, which stretches from the east of the lower Limousin to the west of the Auvergne, developed a new form of lyric...

 Moustier-Ventadour

 Sarran

Greatness, cleanliness of the undergrowth, softness of the foliage, the beech forest never leaves the walkers indifferent. The beech trees sometimes exceed 20m in height and give the impression of a forest cathedral, with the shafts as pillars, the crown as the vault, and the black woodpecker, the m...

 Péret-Bel-Air

Sunken paths, tracks or the old TACOT railway line, the circuit winds through the countryside around Lafage, crossing forests and meadows. The Tacot, a small steam train, marked its passage with its plume of smoke. Find the remains of this secondary railway line which, from 1913 to 1959, linked Tull...

 Lafage-sur-Sombre

This long loop between three communes offers hikers a magnificent route where history and nature accompany your steps. From the wild valley bottoms of the Soudeillette and Lieuteret rivers to the eagle's nest of Ventadour, this itinerary takes in some of the most magical and emblematic spots in the...

 Égletons

It is at the bottom of the Luzège gorges, where nature has regained its rights, that the word "wild" takes on its full meaning: hornbeams, hundred-year-old oaks covered with a carpet of mosses and lichens, coulees and traces of deer, wild boars or otters, let yourself be guided along the water, on t...

 Saint-Hilaire-Foissac

Combrignac, landing stage for pike fishing or starting point for walkers, its paved paths lead you to the hills and plateaus of the Doustre. On the Rouffie stream, a very discreet mammal leaves its epreinte on leaving the water. Made up of fish scales and bones and with a characteristic musk, this t...

 Champagnac-la-Noaille