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Courtineau Valley and Troglodyte Houses

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Sainte-Maure-De-Touraine

Courtineau Valley and Troglodyte Houses

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Courtineau Valley and Troglodyte Houses

Name: Courtineau Valley and Troglodyte Houses
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Location: Sainte-Maure-De-Touraine, Chinon, Centre-Val de Loire, France

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1. Large loop south of Tours — Villeperdue, Monts, Forêt de Larçay starting from Montbazon

81.0km

05:03

350m

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2. Notre Dame de Lorette – Statue of Joan of Arc loop from Pré des Lisses

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3. Châtellerault – View of the Wild Vienne River loop from Dangé-Saint-Romain

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09:19

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Grégory Girard

October 25, 2020

The Courtineau valley is a valley located in the municipalities of Saint-Epain and Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine, in the department of Indre-et-Loire, in the Center-Val de Loire region. Six kilometers long, it has many troglodyte dwellings, water mills, washhouses ... It is classified as a natural area of ecological, faunistic and floristic interest (ZNIEFF) because of its remarkable character.

The chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, carved into the rock, would have been the refuge of a hermit in the fourteenth century2. On March 6, 1429, Joan of Arc would have taken shelter there to protect herself from a downpour while she was traveling the Courtineau valley to go to Chinon to see King Charles VII, after two nights spent in Sainte-Catherine-de -Proudwood.

The water mills:
- The Moulin de la Chaise: from 1241 to 1789, it belonged to the Chapter of Saint-Martine de Tours and depended on the Provost of Saint-Epain.
- The Courtineau mill
- The Malicorne mill: in the fourteenth and at least until the seventeenth century, it depended on the seigneury of Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine. We grew hemp there
- The Souvres mill.
- The mill of Mareille, large building of three floors which appears on the map of Cassini and the Napoleonic land register of 18274. According to the elders, the building was before 1900 a sawmill, the paddle wheel was placed further.

The village of Courtineau is made up of troglodyte houses. In the mid-twentieth century he still owned a café, a grocery store and a school.

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Xavier

May 28, 2022

A very nice road

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Location: Sainte-Maure-De-Touraine, Chinon, Centre-Val de Loire, France

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Courtineau Valley and Troglodyte Houses

1. Large loop south of Tours — Villeperdue, Monts, Forêt de Larçay starting from Montbazon

2. Notre Dame de Lorette – Statue of Joan of Arc loop from Pré des Lisses

3. Châtellerault – View of the Wild Vienne River loop from Dangé-Saint-Romain

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