Walking trail of “La Chauminette”

It is the peak of the town (52m high), and the Romans would have used it as a look-out post. This is actually where the name of the site would come from: “Juillet” from “Julius,” as a tribute to Julius Caesar. From the Middle-Ages, this rock outcrop became the location of mills (four of them were counted.) One of them became the current shrine – a sort of lookout post towering over the horizon – at the end of the 19th century.

The lake of la Martelière

This Gothic-like church was extended from 1832, under King Louis-Philippe: it became 3 times bigger. Inside, the statue of Santiago de Compostela reminds us that the town was once a stopping-place for the pilgrims. The bell tower was built in Neogothic style in 1895.