With its rocky, boulder strewn expanses and underground rivers, Sidobre, once famed for its moorland and its sorcerers, still has some strange surprises to offer…
A place not to be missed!
The Strange Stones of Sidobre
Playing bowls with granite…
A Land of Stone and of Legend
Sidobre in the heart of the Haut-Languedoc Regional Natural Park is the largest granite plateau in Europe.
Sidobre is more than 245 million years old and a paradise for geographers. It boasts a host of famous names such as:
‘Peyro Clabado’ (Occitan for the ‘Nailed Rock’)
The Three Cheeses,
The Goose Rock,
The Balme Blockfield
… amazing shapes, enough to make your head spin!
Sidobre challenges all the laws of equilibrium: what about the Seven Scythes Stone – 900 metric tons that can be made to rock by means of a lever – that’s not going to leave you stone-cold sober!
Once a windswept moor, hostile to settlers, dreaded by travellers, a land feared in legend, Sidobre has, over thousands of years, become covered in beech and pine forests and is one of the largest Granite deposits in Europe.
Explore it on foot, bicycle or mountain bike, with family or friends and it will turn out to be one of the strangest trips of your entire holiday, a time to discover the many secrets of Sidobre!
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