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Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela, the Basilica of Saint-Etienne is distinguished by its rotunda inspired by the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

A small village church with character. It overlooks the Etang de la commune Champillet, where there's also plenty of space and picnic tables for a break.

In the heart of La Châtre stands the Église Saint-Germain. Graceful, but with a past that has literally collapsed. In 1896, the bell tower collapsed, dragging the entire church down with it. What you see now is a rebirth in stone. Step back in the square for a moment, look up at the new tower, and imagine the chaos of that time. Inside, the stained-glass windows bathe the light in warm hues, as if the church itself is trying to say, "I'm here again."

Nice little body of water, ideal for a picnic break 🙃

The Villette pond is a pretty body of water of about 50 hectares. You can discover it by taking the path that borders it on the north side and take a short break to admire many species of birds such as ducks, herons, kingfishers and perhaps even swans, especially in winter. Unfortunately, there are no other paths to go all the way around it. So I head back towards La Châtre via the very pleasant little Duriaux road.

At the exit of Saint Denis de Jouhet, stands a very strange old brick chimney 15 meters high! At the foot, you can see a building that housed coal-powered pumps that were used to pump water drawn from the stream below to the station located less than 1 km away. The water thus arrived at the water tower of the "Jouhet" station and was used to power the steam engines. On old postcards, you can see the chimney and the roof of the building in their environment at the time as well as the station opened on July 1, 1906 on the line from La Châtre to Guéret.

Near Mers sur Indre and the Château du Magnet, in the Chanteloube woods, lies the mysterious Devil's Pond that George Sand described in one of her most famous novels.

A beautiful church with a great statue of St. James