Your Hiking stay in Lozère
The Lozère this extraordinary playground for hiking
LET YOURSELF SINK AT THE WATER'S EDGE.
Recommended by Etienne
Your Program:
- Have your luggage dropped off by carriers, they will be waiting for you when you arrive
D1: arrival at the hotel, taking possession of the room
- Resting on the banks of the Lot
- Dinner in 1/2 board at Les 2 Rives restaurant
D2: breakfast based on local and homemade products
- 9am departure for the rest of your journey
- Your luggage will follow you with a little more speed thanks to the transport of luggage
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Shuttle possible if you want to advance a little faster on the start of the stage.
We remind you that all activities must be carried out with the different partners.
Every trail has its secret!
Stroll along the Path!
This path was created by lovers of the region and marked in 2009 by the French Hiking Federation. It travels 240 km in a single route and crosses the Aveyron, the Lozère, the Gard and the Herat. Initially it was initially a transhumance trail like many other pilgrimage routes. This ancient draille, which was also used for trade, was followed by pilgrims from Saint James who, leaving the Way of the Puy in Velay at Aubrac, were going to bow to the tomb of William of Orange. The route takes about 10 to 14 days to walk.
It is when arriving at La Canourgue that the route can take a variant.
Your Program:
- Have your luggage dropped off by carriers, they will be waiting for you when you arrive
D1: arrival at the hotel, taking possession of the room
- Resting on the banks of the Lot
- Dinner in 1/2 board at Les 2 Rives restaurant
D2: breakfast based on local and homemade products
- 9am departure for the rest of your journey
- Your luggage will follow you with a little more speed thanks to the transport of luggage
-
Shuttle possible if you want to advance a little faster on the start of the stage.
All The Paths Lead to Rome
From Banassac crossing La Canourgue « Little Lozérian Venice ».
A village that we advise you to visit when you arrive, during your stay or before your departure. The canals will seduce you, in fact in our country it is missing only the boats.
IT’S A WHOLE STORY.
Discover this charming GR4834.
Meeting of rural, rock and Scots France away from « noise and fury », revealing its magnificent setting of unspoiled nature, the path of Saint Guilhem offers the hiker a route to his measure.
The « Path » crosses the vast natural spaces that connect the department of Lozère in the north, with that of Herat in the south.
Take the time, the time of the hiker or that of the pilgrim, to get to know this prestigious itinerary among all.
Descending from the granite highlands of Aubrac and its green highland meadows, then crossing the mythical Tarn Gorges, then the limestone Causse of The Mejean, the Cévennes National Park and the Massif du Mont Aigoual, to reach the Herat and Saint Guilhem the Desert after crossing the famous Circus of Navacelles.
This very old route leaves the « Via Podensis » of Compostela at the level of the city of Saint Chély d’Aubrac to reach, via Nasbinals, the Canourgue and the Causse de Sauveterre, the Tarn Gorges in Sainte Enimie. From there, crossing the Causse Méjean, the path reaches Meyrueis, then the Massif of Mount Aigoual, before plunging towards the Vigan. Passing through the circus of Navacelles the « Camin Romieu » approaches Saint Guilhem through the Val du Verdus and Our Lady of Pleasant Place.
Origin of the Way of Saint Guilhem
It is originally an ancient path of transhumance, known as the « Great Aubrac Drail » linking the Montpellier hinterland to the Aubrac volcanic plateau, which has seen for 2000 years herds rising from the Languedoc scrublands to reach the Plateaus of Aubrac, abandoning the heat and aridity of the Mediterranean climate for the freshness of these wide altitudes. From the early Middle Ages, travellers took it: evidenced by the foundation in 1002 of the hospice of Notre Dame de Bonahuc (now Our Lady of Happiness) near Mount Aigoual, where six Augustinian canons ensure the protection of passers-by.
Stay Pèche Lozère – hotel lozère, The trade show giving access to the fairs of Meyrueis and Vigan, attested as early as the 1020s, the development of the cult of Saint Guilhem (Saint William of Orange) and especially the relic of the holy cross deposited in the Abbey of Gellone sees its importance increase. The uncertainties of the 15th century (epidemics – Hundred Years’ War) and the Wars of Religion (16th century) will dry up the flow of pilgrims. The Camin Romieu remained frequented by merchants until the end of the 17th century and then abandoned in favour of the new royal roads, built at the time of the camisard war (1685-1710).
Until the 1960s, transhumant herds used it as far as Aubrac.
Today, only the southern part (from the scrubland to the Aigoual and Meyrueis) is still practiced by several transhumant herds.
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