Impasse du Faubourg Saint-Pierre is a long name for a very small road in Beaulieu-lès-Loches. From the main road it looks more like a driveway or farm track that peters out after 50 metres or so. On the maps it looks to be nothing special, as you can see here
It is only on walking the track that you become aware that is has some properties that Susan and I have never encountered before in this area - it enters a tunnel hewn by hand, before emerging into a cutting with caves on each side.
Even from halfway down the track it
appears to be nothing special
Someone has their cave right
at the entrance to the tunnel
You emerge from the tunnel into a
cutting lined with caves on one side
and what looks like very small troglodyte
dwellings on the other
Looking back the way we came from the
end of the cutting
We assume it was a quarry for the stone from which Beaulieu-lès-Loches is made, but apart from that we know nothing
appears to be nothing special
Someone has their cave rightat the entrance to the tunnel
You emerge from the tunnel into acutting lined with caves on one side
and what looks like very small troglodytedwellings on the other
Looking back the way we came from theend of the cutting
5 comments:
I love these little secret passage ways and how these troglodyte dwellings are still in use! We've got a few near us in Perigord Noir - it's really like another world entirely!
It looks like something from the Hobbit.
I have a real urge to be there.
SP
It's now on the list!
Justine: Thanks for commenting - it means I've now discovered your terrific blog, which I like very much.
Definitely a bit otherworldly & a real find. Will have a nose round the next time we're up there.
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