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 Over the years, man has fought a winning battle with very
tough wildlands by carving terraces into the hills irrigated
with a complex, natural, sophisticated system of gravity-fed
ditches. Some of the most magical landscapes in France with
deep valleys and limpid rivers. The land tells the history
of its inhabitants. The omnipresent "breadfruit"
trees (chestnuts) which fed the people and their livestock
for hundreds of years. Villages with rough-hewn character,
like Antraigues, Banne, Thines…, and mighty castles
like Ventadour, Aubenas, and Montreal… are drawn up
sentinels watching over the country.
But nature always has the last word. The spectacular
leaps of the Ray-Pic waterfall still awes the most seasoned
travellers.
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