Randonnée : La chapelle de Manhaval

Markings: yellow + signage

Departure : Hamlet of Manhaval

POINTS OF INTEREST :

The chapel of Manhaval (formerly dedicated to St. Anne who cured jaundice).

The calm of the valley...to meditate.

Traditional houses and beautiful roofs at the end of the coast.

Viewpoints on the gorges of the Goul.

GR 465 From the Cantal Mountains to the Lot Valley - From Murat to Conques.

DISCOVERY :

The chapel of Manhaval

For more than thirty years, this charming chapel, a real jewel of the 12th century, built on a ridge, in the heart of a wild site, was abandoned and threatened with ruin. In the past, Notre-Dame de Manhaval was a regular priory dependent on the diocese of Saint-Flour. Moreover, a legal act of 1292 specified the lordly rights of the prior but also the charges that were incumbent upon him for the maintenance of the "Chapelain". At the end of the old regime, Manhaval was considered as an annex chapel of Taussac and a vicar of this parish resided there. The hamlet was home to about ten households. A school received the children of Manhaval and the villages of the Goul valley. In the 1960's, the village was abandoned, the parish priest closed, followed closely by the school. The scrub and the bush covered the slopes. In 1976 following the installation of two residents and the improvement of the access from the chief town by the realization of forest tracks the village finds life again.

Finally, in 1985, the municipal council, showing itself to be in favor of saving the chapel, created an association which undertook work to rehabilitate the building. This mission seems to have succeeded thirty-five years later.

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