ウチジーのおすすめウォーキング＆ハイキングルート

Start your hike to this charming medieval fortress from here and walk through the surrounding vineyards and lush countryside, setting the scene for a scenic exploration. As you climb towards the castle, the trail offers stunning views of rolling hills and distant villages.

The reserve offers a rather astonishing landscape for the region since it includes sand dunes that are 5,000 years old. A stone's throw from the sand, the peat bogs spread over more than five hectares, in a waterlogged setting. A stone's throw away, the Fouget pond and its marshland also constitute a refuge for fauna and flora to be discovered by taking the dedicated path.

The continental dunes of Sermoyer, called "Dunes des Charmes", constitute a quite remarkable habitat due to its rarity at the European level, but also due to its fragility which makes it a very threatened habitat. Despite the administrative and biological "cuts" (Seille river), these dunes cannot be dissociated from those of Truchère, located in Saône-et-Loire (Burgundy region), which are also part of the Natura 2000 network (Natural Reserve national Truchère-Ratenelle), whose habitats and problems are identical. We are in the presence of fixed dunes, with bare areas or low residual vegetation, a rare habitat in Europe.

Departure of the walk on the Seille from this place

In Sermoyer, on the banks of the Seille and the Saône, "Les Dunes des Charmes" offers an astonishing panorama, shaped by winds and floods. Far from the sea, the sands of Sermoyer form continental dunes, a very rare geological landscape on a European scale.