Les carrières de Crazannes - Les Lapidiales - Port d'Envaux

Start: Car park at the Crazannes church.

(S/E) From the car park, head west towards its end to reach the school and Rue de la Mairie. Then turn left and, at the next crossroads, take the road opposite towards the quarries, as far as the next T-junction.

(1) Turn left onto Chemin Chevalet and continue to the quarries.

(2) Visit the quarries by following the signs. They will lead you to the Ecomuseum and the freeway service area.
After the visit, return to the car park and join the PR^® to the south-west of the car park.
Stay on this road, going straight ahead at the crossroads.
At the end of the path, turn right, then left onto the D119E2. Turn right towards the bridge.

(3) Once you've crossed the motorway, turn left immediately after the low wall. Follow the road along the motorway to the next bridge.

(4) Cross the motorway again over the bridge used by large animals. Continue straight ahead at the various junctions.

(5) At the end of the forest, take the dirt track on the left. Stay on this wide track until you reach the D237E3. Keep left.

(6) At Les Sauvaitres, take the leftmost road, Route des Chabossières. Follow the Route des Chabossieres up to the Lapidiales, which you must visit (free).

(7) After your visit, return to the crossroads at Les Sauvaitres.

(6) Cross the D237E3 and take the dirt track in the wrong direction.
At Gibrand, turn right into Rue de Gibrand, then immediately left before no. 28. At the end of the road, take the track opposite, then Chemin de la Justice. At the crossroads with Chemin Cagouille, turn left, then, at the junction with Rue de la Corderie, turn left and enter the leisure area.

(8) Join the banks of the Charente, then continue left along the river.

(9) At the impasse called "des Huit Frères", go up into the town of Port-d'Envaux and turn right to reach the Château de Panloy, still going straight ahead.

(10) Then retrace your steps and rejoin the Charente river.
(If you don't intend to visit the château or its grounds, stay along the Charente. The château is clearly visible from the banks of the river).

(9) Continue north-west along the Charente. The path then goes inland. At the next crossroads, turn left.

(11) At the next crossroads, fork right, then take the left-hand road to Château de Crazannes at the next junction.

(12) Bypass the château by the right. Once past the entrance, take the first road on the right to reach the church (S/E).

Picnic area at the Port-d'Envaux leisure area

The old Crazannes quarries offer a surprising landscape of steep stone cliffs and narrow gorges. The resistant white stone was used to build or restore monuments such as Fort Boyard.
Visit the quarry at Crazannes
Les Lapidiales" is an open-air museum with free access, where the excavations left by the quarrymen give the impression of being in the middle of a giant labyrinth, and where you can enjoy discovering the sculptures.
The lapidiales
Possible to visit the Castles of Panloy (Château and park €8 - Park €4): Panloy
and Crazannes (Château and park 9€ - Park 5 €) : Crazannes