ROCHE DE VIC

Near the Four Routes on the D 940, the Vic de Vic appears like a huge cliff escarpment, crowned with heather. Dominating the landscape at 636   m altitude, it is an ideal observation point for the Tulle and Argentat countries. Its magnificent and picturesque ruins have always hit the imagination, especially that of Abel Hugo, author of Picturesque France. Some saw a old town that was supposed to protect a crossroads of ancient roads. What is certain is that in the th century, the Vicomtale family of Turenne restored this fortified site. At the summit, a chapel reconstructed in 1960 is surmounted by a statue of the Virgin. It was the subject of a pilgrimage on 15 August. An orientation table allows to identify an extended panorama, from the mountains of Auvergne to the Causse du Quercy to the south.