Foot
path of Vérouls
- 1 - SOME
DIRECTIONS
- Departure
point: parking park down at the castle
- Average
duration: 3 hours
- Distance :
10,6 Km
- Map :
I.G.N. N° 2441 West
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- 2 - ROUTE
DESCRIPTION
- From the foot
paths information point you leave the parking park and
follow avenue Raymond Bel in the direction of
Montclar. When you leave the village, you go to the
recreation area, left just before the bridge.
- Walk besides the
water up to a parking park. Cross the pedestrian
bridge and follow the stream on the other side on the
leftside about 300 meters. At the point where the path
meets the stream, keep right. Leave the path at the
edge of a field at a junction. Go left direction of
"Vaysse" (don't miss the waterfall).
- Behind the farm
watch the signs (Maltezer cross) carefully to find the
road and turn right. A bit further you cross a path
leading to Calmette and leads along a beech and
firwood. Turn left, left again at a very impressive
beech, where you will find a Malteser cross. Cross the
departmental road D94 and take the road to
Moussac.
- 500 meters before
the hamlet, turn left at a junction and left again
where you take a 400 meters foot path through the
fields. Follow the edge of the woods for 100m, turn
right in to the woods. After the woods take a wider
path on the left side leading to a fenced meadow. The
path descend to Coustou (close the fence carefully).
At the end of the meadow follow the path for 50m and
take a path on the left side through the bushes. After
350 m you reach a junction, the village in
sight.
- From there you
have two possibilities to return to Coupiac: turn
right to reach the village in minutes or left and
climb 500 m through a fir wood. At the crucifix take
the road down to Massiliergues. Descend following the
stream to return to the village. This 30 minutes
D-tour makes it possible to visit the chapel and grave
yard of Massiliergues.
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- 3 - HISTORY
AND NICE TO KNOW
- The chapel of
Notre Dame of Massiliergues was build in at the edge
of the old grave yard. The first graves go back to the
beginning of the XIVth century. The chapel was a
shelter of the church of Coupiac back in 1762. There,
the secret vale was hidden during the religious war.
The most important elements of this chapel; the
crossbows, the arches, the holy water font and the
ampulla's. They date from the XVth century and hail
from the old church of Saint Laurent (foot path of La
Capelle de la Mole and St Laurent-Plaisance). The
holy vale of Coupiac: Coupiac possesses a vale for 5
centuries, which, according to history belonged to the
holy virgin Mary. The holy vale is since centuries an
object of worship to grant a special favor of Mary:
the healing blindness. The official festival of the
holy Virgin Mary takes place every time on the second
Sunday after Easter. Back in 1968 a chapel was formed
where permanently a copper Shrine of the holy vale is
exposed. This chapel was beautifully decorated by
Nicolaï Greshny. It's worth visiting!
- The castle of
Coupiac dates of the end of the XIVth, beginning of
the XVth century. Remarkable by its size, it rises
above the village on top of a rock Only 3 galeries
remained in tact. The forth was destroyed by order of
Louis XI.
- The water fall of
Ravin d'Escabieux: after passing the hamlet of Vaysse,
you follow the path you follow the arrows up to the
Malteser cross. A small D-tour of 500 meters It is
worthwhile following the path that stretches behind
the Malteser cross direction water fall.
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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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