Travel Guide Ecole-Valentin

(School-Valentin) La Loue is first an exceptional river and a single fishing area, a trout species has taken its name. The high calcium rate, in fact, promotes aquatic life. A wide variety of insects and plants, from vaucheria to cladophora, live there. At the bottom of the green valley stretches a winding, oxygenated and shaded river. La Loue retains its magic over the seasons. The beauty of the places has always, since always, struck the imagination of men. Stories and legends are missing on the river. Beautiful, water is also useful. The early colonization of its banks attests to this. A reserve of fish, a considerable hydraulic force usable for agricultural and industrial purposes, the Rent shapes the landscape and belongs to it. The villages bordering its waters fit perfectly into the table. Using the term is not a mere metaphor. The works of the painter Gustave Courbet, a child of the country, committed to transcribe, realistically, daily life and the power of nature, highlight the wild poetry of the places. The tour of the Loue Trail, about 1 hours walk from viewpoints to castles, flora and fauna, is a perfect entry. Nature, which is required here as evidence, finds echo in the built. Loue first, also known as "Petite Venice" of Franche-Comté, built along La Loue and surrounded by its high white cliffs and limestone. Houses that plunge into the water, in the way of northern cities, and its mirror facades, troublés and quicksand reflections that you will certainly try to touch a hand movement or a simple stone jet. Cross the grand bridge of 1602, facing the Hotel de France, and then pass on the other bank of the city. Elsewhere, be it in Montgesoye, Vuillafans and Lods, successive steps during your break in the Loue Valley, the charm continues. Stone mills, maisons houses and beautifully flowering walls are real wonders. Push even to the Loue source in Marsotte-Hautepierre. Courbet, once again, could only draw inspiration from the place for his painting which was scandalous: The Origin of the World.The beauty of the site lies largely in the quality of water, the preservation of the environment and the attachment of the population to these places. Cascades, mirror waters, caves where underground rivers flow, chanting the landscape. Nature does not belong to anyone, it offers free for everyone.