Distance: 10,4 km
Departure: SAINT-QUENTIN-DE-CAPLONG
Loop
Nature (fauna, flora)
Campaigns
Forests
walk
Duration: 2h
Difficulty : Average
The circuit follows woods, vines and rural paths. It also takes part of the Jacquaire route of Vézelay. You will discover a varied landscape along streams and wine châteaux. To see: the village church built in 1865 in the Romanesque style and characterized by a square bell tower surmounted by a conical spire, and the Liret wash house, outside the village.
Your itinerary
SAINT-QUENTIN-DE-CAPLONG
The circuit follows woods, vines and rural paths. It also takes part of the Jacquaire route of Vézelay. You will discover a varied landscape along streams and wine châteaux. To see: the village church built in 1865 in the Romanesque style and characterized by a square bell tower surmounted by a conical spire, and the Liret wash house, outside the village.
1
The town hall
Built in the XNUMXth century, it is a small neoclassical building. The walls are built with local limestone in the form of carefully seated rubble stones. Above the door is a small triangular pediment, in carved stone, the tympanum of which is decorated with a plaque bearing the mention RF (French Republic) carried by two staples.
2
The war memorial
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Right next to the town hall, surrounded by carefully trimmed hedges, this aedicule is accessed through a small gate. The monument, dedicated to the dead of the First World War, and built shortly after the war, is the work of the sculptor André Carbou, a native of Bergerac who made several war memorials in Dordogne. The monument bears the following inscription: "Those who piously died for the country may the crowd come and pray to their coffin." It has a truncated obelisk, erected on a pedestal placed on steps. The obelisk is simply decorated with an oak branch and a crisscrossing laurel branch carved in stone.
3
The parish church
This small church surrounded by its cemetery, where there are remarkable cypresses, was built in 1865 for the sum of 5000 francs. Built in the neo-Gothic style, it is dominated by a square bell tower surmounted by a conical spire at the base of which stand small pinnacles, placed at the top of buttresses which extend to the ground, accentuating the vertical momentum of the 'together. The pointed arch portal has a tympanum. The bell tower is a landmark throughout the walk. This church is one of the many new churches built under the impetus and during the long episcopate of Cardinal Donnet (1785-1882).
4
The mission cross
This stone cross is placed on a canopy which bears the date of 1896. The cross itself is a trefoil Latin cross, which is stylistically very close to another cross, of the same type, present in the town of Caplong, dated 1890.
5
Old windmill
At a place called Moulin de Taillade, there are the remains of an old windmill on an artificial hillock. This is one of the many tower mills that can be found in the surroundings of Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, but also in other Girondins territories and that can be found in particular in many countryside of Aquitaine. .
6
Langalerie Castle
The Château de Langalerie is an old noble house. The Langalerie family owned the estate at the start of the 1796th century. The owner, squire, is a lawyer at the court of the Parliament of Bordeaux. He also owns several houses in the village and a smallholding in the village of Taillade and the mill mentioned above. In 132, the property of this noble family was confiscated and sold as national property to Jean Coste. The estate then extended over an area of XNUMX hectares.