BAR MOUNTAIN AND ITS PEAT BOG
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This strombolink volcano (a truncated cone overfitted with a toilet) grows at 1,175 meters and faces another volcano, Mount Baury on the flanks of which the village of Allègre locks. It is among the youngest volcanoes of Velay with thirteen million to a few hundred thousand years. Mount Bar is unique in Europe: It's the only strombolink volcano that houses in its crater a bog. Its formation was fostered by the excavation of a drain in 1821 to dry the lake that was then in its 500 meter deep crater and 40 meters deep. Today, classified and protected in Natura 2000, this bog has exceptional flora as well as the whole Mount Bar. This specific vegetation consists mainly of water millers, sedge and sphagnum. Do not miss your ride through the 1903 tower, built by the Cartographic Service of the Armies (now IGN), which used to raise the optical axis of a theodolite, a device capable of measuring angles, while removing it from the nearby plant masks. It is hollow to allow the device to stand on the vertical of a sealed anchor in the foundations. The discovery of this atypical place is therefore necessary!
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