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Saint-Marcellin

Name: Saint-Marcellin
Rating: 2

Recommended by 60 hikers

This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Parc naturel régional des Grands Causses

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Location: Mostuéjouls, Millau, Occitania, France

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1. Troglodyte Villages - loop starting from Liaucous - Grands Causses Regional Natural Park

14.2km

04:58

560m

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2. Saint Marcellin

11.5km

03:50

390m

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3. Saint-Marcellin – Ruins loop from Mostuéjouls

3.37km

01:40

260m

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May 21, 2023

Built on the side of a cliff in a natural cirque, Saint-Marcellin, like Églazines, is a magnificent and emblematic site where humans have always adapted to nature to build their habitat.

This troglodyte village thus preserves the remains of a rock fortification but also of jasses (caves converted into sheepfolds), a Caussenard house, a chapel, a bread oven...

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September 26, 2020

The site of Saint Marcellin (alt. 730 meters) is located 4 kilometers northeast of the village of Mostuéjouls. Clinging to the cliffs of the Causse de Sauveterre, it overlooks the white waters of the Tarn river from a height of 400 meters.
Saint Marcellin is best known since ancient times for its pilgrimages influencing the meteorology (people came there to ask for rain), to protect themselves from the plague (1653), for its chapel attested in 1400, for its beautiful source called miraculous determining which fixed the first inhabitants in this inhospitable place. A balm on a ledge, a cliff jump of 7 meters by 3 presumed to be the tomb of the saint (Balsan excavations in 1927 unsuccessful), must have added a sacred touch to the place. Finally, a “troglodyte castle” draws attention to the left as you leave the village. It consists of a wall that hermetically closes a cave located in the cliffs that border the Causse.
Source: millavois.com

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Elevation 630 m

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Saint-Marcellin

1. Troglodyte Villages - loop starting from Liaucous - Grands Causses Regional Natural Park

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3. Saint-Marcellin – Ruins loop from Mostuéjouls

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