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Mont Gargan

Peaking at 731 m and on the south-eastern boundary of the Haute-Vienne, Mont Gargan offers visitors its natural, cultural and historical wealth: heathlands, peat bogs, centuries-old beech avenue or 19th-century religious remains are all to see along a discovery trail: the remains of the Notre Dame de Bon Secours chapel, the fountain of devotions, the memorial stone commemorating acts by the Resistance. Mont Gargan has been listed nationally as a natural monument site. It is also an important landscape of the Millevaches in the Limousin Regional Nature Park.

Along the 2.2-kilometre discovery trail, Mont Gargan offers offers visitors its natural, cultural and historical wealth: 

  • centuries-old beech avenue,
  • the heathlands, remants of a agropastoral landscape, 
  • remains of the Notre Dame de Bon Secours chapel,
  • memorial stone commemorating acts by the Resistance.

A discovery brochure is available for visitors (attention, the path is not suitable for pushchairs).

 

Mont Gargan

87130    Saint-Gilles-les-Forêts