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Circuit pédestre : La Font du Beau

Walking in Lourdoueix-saint-pierre
21.6 km
Loop
on foot
5h 30min
Hard
  • On the edge of the Indre, adjacent to Aigurande, the commune features 3 very different landscape units: to the west, the steep-sided valley of La Petite Creuse, overlooked by the village of Lignaud, with traces of a very ancient past; in between, a tightly-knit, wooded, undulating bocage, criss-crossed by numerous streams, with beautiful vistas. The area is dotted with numerous villages, some of them quite substantial, such as Lignaud and Les Chaumes.

    A surprising number of village crosses...
    On the edge of the Indre, adjacent to Aigurande, the commune features 3 very different landscape units: to the west, the steep-sided valley of La Petite Creuse, overlooked by the village of Lignaud, with traces of a very ancient past; in between, a tightly-knit, wooded, undulating bocage, criss-crossed by numerous streams, with beautiful vistas. The area is dotted with numerous villages, some of them quite substantial, such as Lignaud and Les Chaumes.

    A surprising number of village crosses and pathways, in stone, wood or iron, dot the commune.

    An unusual feature: the commune has two Monuments aux Morts (war memorials), one in the village and one in the hamlet of Villechiron.

    The writer George Henry (1896-1906), whose real name was Henriette Jeanne Bruner, was a regular visitor to the hamlet of Piodon.
282 meters of difference in height
  • Maximum altitude : 419 m
  • Minimum altitude : 302 m
  • Total positive elevation : 282 m
  • Total negative elevation : -282 m
  • Max positive elevation : 55 m
  • Min positive elevation : -59 m