Preserved nature, conducive to outdoor activities…
Natural and heritage riches are already well promoted thanks to a network of 375 km of maintained and marked hiking trails. 32 hiking routes have been set up by a working group composed of volunteers and elected officials who are mobilizing to develop a qualified offer of hiking routes.
For cycling, theBike-VTC base of La Roussille in Châtelus-Malvaleix offers 8 marked routes from 9km to 67km and that’s without forgetting the Creuse à Vélo route that crosses several communes in this territory!
Note: remarkable trees
Between the Tilleul du Sully in Mortroux (4 times centenary) and the magnificent oak of Bois Râteau in Bonnat (several times centenary), or the remarkable tree of Mortroux (8m) listed in 2006 by the DIREN in the register “remarkable trees and alignments of the Limousin”, here severalliving trees are exceptional by their age, their dimensions, their shape, their past or even their legend.
Playful moments: Golf & Pumptrak
In Bonnat, come and test or improve your swing at the educational golf, accessible freely and for free. All you need is a club and balls to have fun on this driving range with 15 tee boxes and 3 greens of 100m2 each.
Near the Roussille water park, you can find aPumptrak track of 180m linear, with bumps and turns. It is exclusively reserved for non-motorized vehicles that is: bikes, draisies, scooters, skates. Users, do not need to pedal, in fact, just “pump (extensions/flexions)” with arms and legs while using bumps and turns.
The legend of the sleeping beauty of the Ebue Stone in Jalesches (Creuse)
Here again, the stone holds many legends. In Jalesches, a huge granite chaos tells a story of love and crusades. Discover the secrets of the Ebue Stone. It is called the Ebue Stone. In the past, this place was called the Péreybus. It is said that the lord of Péreybus had an only son, named Raoul, who, during the Crusades led by Saint Louis, also left for the Holy Land. He was engaged to the daughter of the lord of Toulx, Enguerrande, who, after having lost one by one her six brothers to the Crusades, had lost her mother of sorrow, then her father. She remained alone in the castle, waiting for Raoul to return. One day, a knight knocked on her door and told her he was bringing a message from his beloved. Since that day, Enguerrande suddenly disappeared. The villagers believed that she had been kidnapped by the devil. Two years passed and Raoul returned to Toulx on Palm Sunday. It is said that he donated a piece of the true cross to the cathedral, and that Toulx became Toulx-Sainte-Croix. While searching for his fiancée, he learned of her sudden disappearance. The news plunged him into sadness, but he promised to take revenge on the one who had stolen his bride.
Sleeping on a bed of moss
On Palm Sunday morning, he set out for the castle of Pereybus. As he arrived near the rock, the procession from Jalesches reached the church, and the priest pronounced two simple words, “Attolite portas” (Open the doors). Immediately, a great noise resounded in the rock which split in two from top to bottom. Each half turned on itself like two heavy doors that opened and revealed a cave. Inside, Enguerrande was lying on a bed of moss. Overjoyed to see her beloved again, she told him what had happened two years earlier, believing that the events had occurred the day before. The so-called knight who had come to her door had tried to steal her honor by threatening her. She prayed to Our Lady, who came to her aid. “Sleep in peace”, she had simply said to him. Sleeping under the rock of Péreybus, Enguerrande spent two years in the shelter of her mossy bed. As for the rock of Péreybus, it closed the moment the priest of Jalesches pronounced the Ite, missa est. Legend has it that it reopened every year for the next few centuries, the moment the Palm Sunday procession entered the church and closed once mass was said.
Julie Ho Hoa (La Montagne)
