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Royère-de-Vassivière walks
The Thaurion Valley
Tourist office
8.57 mi
+692 ft
-676 ft
4h 35
Moderate
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
The Rigole du Diable is a picturesque site situated in the upper Thaurion valley. This site is a Natura 2000 site and is listed in the ZNIEFF inventory. The Rigole du Diable and its tributary are strewn with pebbles and boulders. Here you’ll find the unusual Rocher du Diable near the old Planchette mill. Legendary stones are common in Limousin. These strangely shaped boulders, formed by the erosion of exposed granite, have often captured the imagination of local people.
Route des 7 Peux
7.98 mi
+538 ft
-538 ft
4h 10
Moderate
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
The village of Royère-de-Vassivière was established on a strategic pass on the Millevaches plateau, at the crossing point of a prehistoric ridge path. The ridge paths (or pouges) allowed people to travel long distances. They favoured the granite peaks of the rounded hills, called Puy or Peux, and avoided the damp, peaty valley bottoms that only cattle frequented.
Haute Faye route
5.91 mi
+827 ft
-823 ft
3h 25
Moderate
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
Discover the local heritage (crosses, fountains, wells...) and the skills of our ancestors.
Circular route via the Puy de la Croix and Royère
Visorando Member8.17 mi
+663 ft
-653 ft
4h 20
Moderate
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
A walk starting from Lake Vassivière offering a variety of landscapes: the lake shore, heathland with heather or ferns, mixed woodland, pastures with Limousin cattle, peat bogs, and numerous ponds.
Le Puy de la Croix
1.39 mi
+194 ft
-194 ft
0h 50
Easy
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
A pleasant walk on the Puy de la Croix, which overlooks Lake Vassivière, along beautiful paths through heathland covered in heather and gorse (which flower in late summer), passing by the Puy de la Croix viewpoint and then along the lake’s shore.
the Devil’s Channel
1.82 mi
+246 ft
-236 ft
1h 05
Easy
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
A fairly family-friendly hike. The outward journey is downhill along a bucolic stream, through a lush, almost tropical deciduous forest. The return is more austere, through a mysterious, moss-covered coniferous forest.
Masgrangeas Wood and Chassagnas Peninsula
7.97 mi
+761 ft
-781 ft
4h 20
Moderate
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
A walk on the Millevaches Plateau, mainly through woodland, passing through the pretty hamlet of Masgrangeas. After a circular route through the Bois de la Roche, the route continues with a circular route around the Chassagnas Peninsula, along Lake Vassivière, then a walk around the small Île de Vauveix.
Rigole du Diable and the Mazure moors
7.40 mi
+558 ft
-548 ft
3h 55
Moderate
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
A very beautiful walk combining three circular loops and offering a wide variety of landscapes: gorges and rocky outcrops along the Rigole du Diable, followed by peat bogs, superb heather moors, wet meadows, and undergrowth of fir or deciduous trees of various species.
Route des Tourbières - Vassivière
8.83 mi
+837 ft
-843 ft
4h 45
Moderate
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
Peat bogs develop in granite basins called alveoli, where the acidic, poor soil provides favourable conditions for their growth. These fragile environments are home to a specific flora composed of very particular primitive plants: sphagnum mosses. The different stages are visible here: low marshes covered with quaking bogs, active raised bogs, and peat heaths bordered by willows and birches.
The Chassagnas Peninsula on Lake Vassivière
4.49 mi
+364 ft
-371 ft
2h 25
Easy
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
Chassagnas, of Latin origin, Cassania or Gallic Cassanus, refers to the oak tree. Chassagnas consists of a wooded slope down to the edge of Lake Vassivière and a partially cleared summit offering a 180° view of the lake.The Chassagnas peninsula, jutting out into the heart of Lake Vassivière, forms the boundary between Creuse and Haute-Vienne. Together with its twin, the Puy du Rocher, which overlooks Vauveix, it acts as a barrier between the lake's two main bays.
Route des Bordes
6.69 mi
+988 ft
-958 ft
3h 55
Moderate
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
The Bordes route offers typical landscapes as well as varied panoramic views of the Limousin countryside.
Route des Deux Digues (Saint-Martin route)
5.88 mi
+459 ft
-446 ft
3h 05
Moderate
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
The embankments and the beautiful view of the lake, the sweeping landscapes beyond Le Chataignoux, the lovely rows of trees, the walk around Peu de Vaux, and the arrival at Auchaise are all delightful surprises on this walk near Lake Vassivière.
Route of the two dykes at Vassivière
4.35 mi
+417 ft
-413 ft
2h 20
Easy
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
The dam is complemented by the Auchaise dyke, which seals off a depression in the ground on the right bank about 400m from the main structure. This reservoir also receives water diverted from the upper basins of the Taurion (La Vaud-Gelade), Vienne, Dorat and Chandouille (Faux-la-Montagne) rivers.
Route around Lake Vassivière
23.57 mi
+1,280 ft
-1,286 ft
2 days
Moderate
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
This two-stage route of 2 x 18 km will take you on a journey of discovery around one of the largest artificial lakes in France.
You can expect to see mid-mountain landscapes, varied vegetation including fir forests, moors and peat bogs, and wild flora and fauna on this tour of Lake Vassivière, commonly known as "Little Canada".
The highlight of the route: a stopover at the Pourvoirie du Lac stopover lodge (accommodation, breakfast and dinner with a panoramic view of the lake).
From the Vassivière Dam to Nergout
11.99 mi
+614 ft
-551 ft
6h 05
Moderate
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
This first stage takes you through unspoilt countryside, with a route that is both wild and surprising.
The Auchaise and Auphèle embankments
3.05 mi
+315 ft
-331 ft
1h 40
Easy
Departure from Royère-de-Vassivière (Creuse)
A short walk that takes you up to a slight elevation as you pass through the hamlet of Auchaise, with its traditional houses, before descending to the lakeside, crossing its two embankments, and then heading down to the foot of the dam on the Maulde.
Tour of Vassivière Island
4.05 mi
+108 ft
-108 ft
1h 55
Easy
Departure from Beaumont-du-Lac (Haute-Vienne)
An artistic tour of Vassivière Island along a path lined with numerous works from the International Centre for Art and Landscape. The route also takes you through the heart of the island, where you’ll find the museum, the old castle, a bread oven and a shop selling local crafts.
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