リベンヌ周辺のアトラクション＆必見スポット - トップ16

We passed and enjoyed this during our Camino trip in 2025: https://youtu.be/xZkbnoCtUzE

We passed and enjoyed this during our Camino trip in 2025: https://youtu.be/xZkbnoCtUzE

Lac de Charpal lies at an altitude of 1,360 meters amidst raised bogs, forests, and heathland. This artificial reservoir, built in the 1930s, supplies Mende with drinking water. Today, it is a tranquil retreat, popular for hiking, nature observation, and its protected flora and fauna.

The feeling that dominates the most here is space, nature.

A dam on the Colagne river created this Charpal lake. It supplies the town of Mende with drinking water. The Charpal site was originally chosen in 1925 to create an underwater munitions depot. This strange project never took place, because the lake was not deep enough and did not allow the immersion of the powder.

Saint Stephen “Saint-ETIENNE” is one of the seven first deacons of the early Jerusalem community and is also the first martyr (martyr) of early Christianity. The church remembers him on Boxing Day, December 26th. When Stephen uttered aloud his vision of the open heaven, "And being filled with the Holy Spirit, he looked up into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God" (Acts chapter 7 verse 55), the people were so indignant that that they drove him out of the city and stoned him.

Lake Charpal is an artificial lake whose origin is quite strange since it was initially designed to store surplus ammunition underwater at the end of the 14-18 war. After construction, the project was finally abandoned. Today, it is a magnificent natural site in the heart of Margeride.

If you have previously - coming from the German Eifel - made a pilgrimage via Metz, Cluny and Dijon to Le Puy en Velay and now continue here via the southern foothills of the Central Massif, a completely different landscape is revealed once again.