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Cron de Montauban

Natural Monuments

Wallonie

Cron de Montauban

Highlight • Natural Monument

Cron de Montauban

Name: Cron de Montauban
Rating: 2

Recommended by 39 mountain bikers

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Location: Étalle, Virton, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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1. Cron de Montauban – Chalet de la Rouge Eau loop from Chantemelle

50.2km

04:22

670m

Hard mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. Some portions of the route may require you to push your bike.

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2. Gros Cron Stream – Cron de Montauban loop from Fratin

51.9km

04:25

690m

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Chalet de la Rouge Eau – Cron de Montauban loop from Fratin

42.1km

03:36

520m

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Mika 🚴

June 21, 2022

The site extends about 2 km south of the village of Buzenol, on the left side of the Gros Ruisseau valley, in a largely forested environment (beech grove, among others). The cron, name given to the petrifying limestone springs, currently appears as a steeply sloping clearing facing south and tumbled down by rivulets with crystal clear water, which are fed by two springs located a little below the archaeological park of Montauban . There is remarkably contrasting vegetation and ecological conditions: thus an arid calcareous grassland with blue sesleria (Sesleria caerulea), an alkaline marsh with molinia (Molinia caerulea), dry or wet rocky slabs, a sedge meadow rub shoulders over a short distance. with scaly sedge (Carex lepidocarpa), pioneer thickets of willow (Salix spp.) and buckthorn (Frangula alnus), thermophilic preforest fringes, etc. The flora includes many rare species such as parnassia (Parnassia palustris) and flea sedge (Carex pulicaris), both highly threatened in Wallonia. The local fauna is just as remarkable: the site is, for example, the favorite habitat of a rare dragonfly, the bidentate cordulegaster (Cordulegaster bidentatus), whose larvae develop in the thin streams of water. On this same slope there are several other crons also very interesting but largely under forest cover.

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Elevation 360 m

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Location: Étalle, Virton, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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Cron de Montauban

1. Cron de Montauban – Chalet de la Rouge Eau loop from Chantemelle

2. Gros Cron Stream – Cron de Montauban loop from Fratin

3. Chalet de la Rouge Eau – Cron de Montauban loop from Fratin

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