Mende – Village Mort de La Chaumette loop from Mende
Mende – Village Mort de La Chaumette loop from Mende
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Mende – Village Mort de La Chaumette loop from Mende
01:30
18.2km
450m
Cycling
Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: March 3, 2026
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Your route passes through protected areas
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Parc national des Cévennes (aire d'adhésion)
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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710 m
Mende
Highlight • Settlement
The town owes its wealth in part to its production of draperies, and thus becomes an important commercial crossroads between the Languedoc and Auvergne regions. I particularly like its fountain with its massive stone ball rolling on itself in the water.
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1.66 km
Côte de la Croix Neuve
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7.83 km
Mount Mimat Viewpoint over Mende
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9.80 km
Village Mort de La Chaumette
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At this date, there remains an inhabitant in Gerbal and a family in La Chaumette. We are far from the fifteen families who lived here at the beginning of the 19th century.
These villages lived off the breeding of sheep and the cultivation of wheat. But from the 16th century, the demand for wool exploded in Europe. The herds are growing, which leads to the deforestation of more and more areas and the exhaustion of land. It is therefore depleted and leached land which is ceded to the State, which establishes the current forest there.
Of these villages there remain the ruins of the dwellings, with the exception of a Chaumette complex restored by the ONF in the 1960s.
These houses, entirely in limestone, are models of the Caussenard habitat. The main building has two levels, ground floor housing and the floor dedicated to storage, is accompanied by a sheepfold surmounted by its barn. All of these constructions are made of stone, there is no wood of sufficient quality and size or at too high a cost.
There were only two villages because there are only two sources of water, which had to supplement several cisterns and lavognes (artificial pond to water the cattle).
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17.3 km
Mende Old Town and Cathedral Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Privat
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18.2 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
11.6 km
3.20 km
2.11 km
836 m
328 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
14.5 km
3.50 km
146 m
< 100 m
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Elevation
Highest point (1,060 m)
Lowest point (710 m)
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