The Chapel Trail

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Departure from the panoramic tower car park. Head towards the tower.

This circuit is part of the FFVélo Haute-Corrèze mountain bike base, the largest mountain biking area in France with 1000 km of marked circuits. It extends the "Monts et Bruyères" (Mountain and Heath) circuit and is shortened from the "Ô Taphaleschas!" circuit. A circuit running on forest tracks, with a succession of climbs and descents without too much respite, ideal for a short but rhythmical outing.

3 points of interest

Vue du Mont Bessou - CC HCC
Panorama
Tour of Mont Bessou
Climb the few steps of the Mont Bessou Panoramic Tower, which elevates you to the highest point of the Limousin and Limousin Mountain, at an altitude of 1,000 m. Discover the Millevaches plateau in front of you... Do not look for the shepherdess or her flock, which were transformed, according to the legend, by the devil into 100 stones (see the site of the Hundred Stones). Don't linger either, as a good etymologist, looking for the 1,000 pools or 1,000 streams that meander through the caves and hollows, feeding the pastures (wet meadows) and peat bogs, before swelling the waters of the Dordogne and Loire rivers. Finally, don't think that the Limousin highlands look like a chain of puys, the cones of extinct volcanoes, like those in the Auvergne which you can see in the distance. They are much more like a dull succession of heavy hills and hollows separated by barely marked valleys... the landscape of Millevaches is magnificent.
G.Salat - CC HCC
Heritage site
Lestrade
The villages of Haute-Corrèze have all been involved in agriculture. Walking through these hamlets always produces interesting discoveries during a hike: barns, mansions, crosses and monuments, traditional local architecture... In Lestrade, don't miss the chapel, the bread oven, the dry stone walls…
V.Mendras - CC HCC
Heritage site
The Chapel of St. James
This chapel dates from at least the 13th century. Adjacent to a small cemetery, its wall-belfry is built very simply, but the quality of its window frames, its floor made up of a maze of religious burial tombs, and its fully panelled vault make it a remarkable building.