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橋の上からの眺めが一番美しいです。

What you don't see when you walk here: this lake exists thanks to sheer stubbornness. When the La Joyante River was dammed in the 1970s, no one believed the lake would ever amount to anything. Too isolated, too wild. But nature had other plans. Today, the water is so calm that you almost forget how much effort it once took to tame this landscape.

Beautiful photos but no longer relevant as the pond has been dry for two years.

next to bus stop

You are here, at the highest point in the Cher department and the Centre-Val de Loire region. It rises to an altitude of 504 meters. The roads leading there are quiet and peaceful.

Touring France in motorhome. This place is quite good

We no longer know where to look. On one side the Culan viaduct, a former railway line passing over the Arnon and rehabilitated as a pedestrian path. On the other, Culan Castle which stands on its rocky spur in the distance. We can see particularly well from the bridge its wooden hoardings, the wooden elements under the roof which were used to throw projectiles at the attackers and which we rarely see anymore on the fortresses which had them.

Castle in excellent condition, mainly built between the 12th and 15th centuries. It follows two previous buildings destroyed in the 10th and 12th centuries. Mazarin ordered in 1651, at the time of the Fronde, the destruction of part of its structure (entrance castle, top of its keep and certain areas of its ramparts). Its last owner, who died in 2020, tried to bequeath the castle to the Cher department, which refused due to the excessive cost of maintenance. The visit is possible every day between Easter and All Saints’ Day. Medieval weekends and thematic visits are also organized there during part of the summer.