Day 3 : MOUDEYRES - SAINT-ARCONS-D'ALLIER (82 on 293 km)
The village of Moudeyres has kept numerous typical houses on the Mézenc plateau. Isolated at more than 1200 metres of elevation, you will be greeted in a thatched cottage from the XVIIth century issued straight ahead from a fairy tale.
Your pilgrimage through the major places of Christendom will encounter Monastier abbey-church built in the XIth century. Following the Gazeille valley you will travel along the river Loire in Solignac to reach the summit of one of the most beautiful sites in France.
Le Puy-en-Velay, starting point for one the Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle paths, greets a great number of pilgrims who revere the Black Virgin of Notre-Dame-du-Puy.
The statues which rise on each hill around the town testify this devotion. One of these rocks is surmounted by the chapel Saint-Michel-d’Aiguilhe one of the jewels of the Roman Auvergnat art.
When leaving le Puy through the valley, you will come across the the knights’castles flanking the towns of Polignac and Saint-Vidal which commanded their fief in Pays de Velay from the height of their spur.
You will find back the valley of Allier in Monistrol. After having driven past the foot of the castle Rochegude your road will rise along a medium corniche above the gorges, before travelling down in a steep-sided site where you will discover the village of Prades. You will drive on the left bank of the river Allier up to Saint-Julien-des-Chazes.
You will find back the right bank of the river which will lead you up to Saint-Arcons d’Allier, the end of your itinerary.
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