Millevaches en Limousin Regional Natural Park
Landscapes Millevaches en Limousin Regional Natural Park
Bends and curves of a landscape
Its territory, with a typically cavity-based relief offering a myriad of colours in the four seasons –red in autumn, white in winter, green in spring and blue in summer– is made up of remarkable environments that alternate peat bogs listed among the most important in Europe (Longeyroux, la Ferrière, Négarioux-Malsagne, la Longérade, Chabannes, Berbeyrolles, etc.), dry moors with heather (Senoueix, la Mazure, Giat, Gioux, Cirque de Freysselines, Roches Brunagères, etc.), broad-leaved forests, slope forests, prairies, gentian, etc.
Millevaches, the land of "a thousand springs"
Sometimes wild, the sources of the Vienne, Creuse, Vézère, Corrèze, Diège, Luzège, Chavanon Valley… all converge on the watershed between the Loire in the north and the Dordogne and Garonne in the south.
Sometimes controlled, with a succession of lakes (the 1,000 ha of Vassivière form a veritable inland sea, Viam, Bariousses, Faux la Montagne, Lavaud-Gelade, Chammet, Séchemailles), ponds (Les Oussines, Méouze, Grattadour, Ramade, Maurianges, Meyrignac l’Eglise, Bourdeau, Vervialle…) and man-made lakes (Vallière, Peyrelevade, Sornac, La Croisille-sur-Briance, Sussac, l’Abeille, Ponty in Ussel).
