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Beautiful castle with a beautiful forest nearby 😉

picturesque village with many interesting stories told on a tourist sign

A pleasant surprise, this passage on this old stone bridge

Created by Henri LEGOU in Le Mans in 1919, who, the same year, founded DRAGOR & ALMA (DRAGOR – bucket pump and ALMA – compressed air pump), DRAGOR pumps were installed on well sites or hand pumps because they were much less tiring and allowed them to reach depths of several dozen meters. They were driven by a crank, sometimes with an additional wheel on the opposite side. Unfortunately, few pumps today retain their wheel, but some still have their crank. They consist of a belt to which buckets are attached, driven by a pulley operated by the crank. The end of the pipe ends in a lion's head. They can be found in many French departments, but also in Algeria and Chad.

The commune of St Martin des Champs is home to a castle, the Château de Corbeville, built in the 16th century. This building belonged to Lord Lallemant Lecoq, and more recently to the couturier Jacques Fath (buried in the park in 1954) and the singer Gérard Lenorman.

Below, sporty mountain bike descent and arrival at a small river with a Roman stone bridge to cross

very nice hike in the woods with some stone bridges to discover

a pretty little village not to be missed in the Yvelines: you wouldn't think you were in the suburbs of Paris!