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very very nice path :)

Between the Loire and the hills, Turquant welcomes, in season, craftsmen and a Métiers d'Art boutique in a remarkably restored troglodyte site. Several designers open their workshops to the public and passionately share their expertise. Today, you can wander around the troglodytes between tradition and modernity to discover all their originality.

Between Montsoreau and Saumur, the tuffeau rock dominates the Loire and is cut from one end to the other by a series of caves, sometimes troglodyte dwellings, sometimes quarries... Villages spring up in the valleys that crisscross the hills, while vineyards and mills mark the ridge. In Turquant, more than anywhere else, you can discover this Loire landscape, so characteristic of the Côte Saumuroise. Today, between tradition and modernity, the troglodytes can be discovered in all their originality, particularly in the Village des Métiers d'Art.

Taste, look around and enjoy...

At this location you are in the middle of an underground labyrinth of Souzay-Champigny. Explanation: underground, in the cliffs and hills, the troglodytes of Saumurois form an enormous underground network. These are unique in France. More than 1 km of tunnels have been dug by man over the centuries to live, shelter and work. Here you can literally dive into a cool past.

This place of worship, also known as the Grotte de Lourdes, in homage of course to the famous Pyrenean cave, overlooks the Divatte, in a particularly pleasant, green and shaded site, equipped with picnic tables. The single track that runs along the river is passable by mountain bike or gravel, but it seems very popular with hikers.

we are impressed by the wine, a huge bottle at the entrance to the town and by the many rock caves, rock houses, rock wineries and also rock restaurants! You have to see it to be believed!

Delicious and very reasonably priced sparkling wine, tasted with Marc the owner and vintner- in French!