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Cooler route ideal for hot summer days, sturdy footwear required.

The Château de Saint-Thamar dates back to the 15th century and was altered in the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, you can stay in style and dine there. Listed as a historical monument since 1975.

The first name Jean has been widespread since biblical times, and so it should not surprise us to find a whole series of blessed and saints with this name over the two millennia of Christianity. At the threshold from the Old to the New Testament we come across John the Baptist, to whom most of the churches dedicated to John are dedicated. But one of the four men who wrote the New Testament Gospels also bears this name. This church in the town, which even bears his name in the place name (Saint-Jean-Lagineste), is dedicated to him, "Saint-Jean l'Évangeliste". A long church tradition has considered the evangelist to be identical with the apostle John mentioned in the Bible, but this is doubted in biblical scholarship. "The Gospel of John exerts a peculiar fascination. It is difficult to escape its solemn, sometimes mystical language. It addresses deep human needs and longings: hunger and thirst, the search for fulfilling eternal life, the longing for personal communion with God.” (Franz-Josef Ortkemper)

Small church from 1859. Good starting point for hikes (parking lot right next to it).

Beautiful viewpoint with a bench for picnicking.

Narrow but easy to walk path. On the one hand there are always views over the valley landscape.

The Saint-Jean l'Évangeliste church dates from 1844 and is dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist.

On the Mont Saint-Joseph, above the village of Lagineste, a chapel was built from 1873 on the initiative of a parish priest. Since 1881 pilgrimages have been held annually in honor of Saint Joseph, the patron saint of workers. This pilgrimage corresponded to a nineteenth-century revival of devotion to Joseph and the Virgin Mary, regarded by the Church as models of Christian life. Pope Pius IX declared Joseph the patron saint of the Catholic Church in 1870 and set his name day on March 19.