Foot
path of Marquié
- 1 - SOME
DIRECTIONS
- Departure
point: village square of Montclar
- Average
duration : 1,30 hours
- Distance: 4
Km
- Map: I.G.N.
N° 2441 West
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- 2 - ROUTE
DESCRIPTION
- Take the D60 road
between the 2 café's direction of Faveyrolles
(it is the village main street going down). Just
before the sign indicating the end of the village, at
the Maria statue take the road on the right side
direction Farret and Martrin. Watch carefully as soon
as you are on this road; The foot path you must take
starts there. But first take a D tour to see the tree
of life on the other side of the street (See "Nice to
know"). The path leads along the road and is much
nicer to walk because of the shade. As soon as the
path joins the road , take the road to the right
leading to St Peyre and La Marquié.
- When you arrive at
the junction you will pass a fir wood on your left and
take the road right. At your right in northern
direction you can see clearly the village Montclar
with its beautiful positioned water tower (See "Nice
to know"). Follow the path leading down. Be careful,
the trail leaves the road for a couple of hundred
meters before it reaches La Marquié, which is
private property. Follow the path up to the stream
that babbles down through the woods.
- Cross the stream
and take the path on the opposite side, that's going
up in a steep ascend. During the climb pass "Le Bosc"
at your right. Arriving above you will see bee hives
on both sides of the path. Careful, don't disturb the
bees. Arriving at the community road, you will see
Montclar at your right and the water tower on the
opposite side. Turn right and go down back to the
village. Pause at the statue of St. Antoine (See "Nice
to know").
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- 3 - HISTORY
AND NICE TO KNOW
- The village : its
square with the arches, its stone doorposts of doors
and windows and very old houses.
- The crucifix of
St. Antoine : It is very old and there are strange,
still unexplained marks on it.
- The observation
point: you find it a couple of hundred meters from the
village on the left side of the D60 direction Coupiac.
It is at the water tower, where you will find a map of
the surroundings and a telescope giving a 360°
panoramic view. In the south the mountains of Lacaune,
in the east the ends of the plateau of Larzac and in
the north Lévézou.
- The sculptured
tree: this dead elm tree close to the party hall at
the end of the village direction St Affrique ) is a
sort of monument and thanks to the creativity of
Pierre Vasseur the tree was brought back to life. A
long time the dream of this talented sculptor, who
spends his vacation here in Montclar every summer for
a couple of weeks, was to try his talents on a tree
and give the tree back its life and to give something
to the village. You can guess how this strange story
developed: in August 1995 the artist and the tree met,
it was like lightning stroke! On the elm tree Pierre
Vasseur sculptured the landscape where the tree stroke
root and which he called "tree of life". He also
engraved part of the village hymne in to a escutcheon:
"Montclar es bastit sus la pèira, Montclar
perira pas" (Montclar is build on stone, Montclar will
never disappear). What a romantic proposal to this
country by this man who lives in Paris!
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HOMEPAGE
- 1
- Brasc
- 2
- La Bastide
- 3
- Vérouls
- 4
- La Capelle de la Mole
- 5
- Farret
- 6
- Jouvayrac
- 7
- Cayla
- 8
- La Marquié
- 9
- Saint-Igest
- 10
- Suc d'Armont
- 11
- Saint-Laurent
- 12
- Saint-Juéry
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