Valuéjols: holiday apartments and holiday homes

Valuéjols is part of the Parc Naturel Régional des Volcans d’Auvergne. The Bois des Fraux is one of the few wooded areas of the Planèze and is a remarkable place for walks in both summer and winter; in winter, snowshoe hikes are also possible there.

Anyone wishing to rent a holiday apartment in Valuéjols should shortlist this destination.

Nature

An easily accessible 18-kilometre circular trail around the Bois des Fraux passes through woodland, summer pastures and villages. The GR4 passes through Valuéjols, which forms a stage between Plomb du Cantal and Saint-Flour. Valuéjols is also a stage on the long-distance hiking trail Les Boucles du Tour de la Planèze. For mountain bikers, the Circuit des estives circular route starts in Lescure in Valuéjols.

Winter sports

Les Mouthes is a 4.9-kilometre circular cross-country ski trail for classic skiing or skating in Valuéjols. The Le Ché Nordic area has 15 kilometres of trails and three cross-country ski routes for classic skiing or skating at an altitude of 1,240 to 1,450 metres. Les Rhodes is a 3-kilometre cross-country ski route prepared for classic skiing or skating on broad forest tracks. The Voie blanche La Forêt is an easy circular route for snowshoeing or Nordic ski touring and leads through the forest.

Culture and history

The Church of Saint-Saturnin has been listed in the supplementary inventory of France’s historic monuments since 1928. It has appeared in the records of Moissac since 804. The church preserves a retable carved by Antoine Boyer and gilded by Noël Verdier in 1696.

Notre-Dame de la Visitation in Lescure is a pilgrimage church within Valuéjols. The present-day church in Lescure contains a chapel built in 1725, which replaced an earlier oratory. The Notre-Dame du Bon Secours chapel in Nouvialle was built in 1858 on the initiative of Abbé Roussilhe. A preserved stone pulpit was classified as a movable historic monument on 13 October 1997.

Further insights

The Gîte d'étape de Valuéjols offers 12 sleeping places in bunk beds, a kitchenette, a communal room, and sanitary facilities with a shower and toilet. It is located in the Parc Naturel Régional des Volcans d’Auvergne on the GR4.

Miel et merveilles du Cantal offers, by appointment, tours of the apiary and an introduction to the life of bees.

More local pages: Lavigerie, Saint-Cernin, Montmurat, Saint-Étienne-De-Maurs, Fontanges, Jou-Sous-Monjou, Saint-Urcize, Raulhac.

To the overarching travel overview: Cantal.