La Tour-Du-Meix: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

Lac de Vouglans is 35 km long and the third-largest artificial lake in France. Its wooded shores feature viewpoints, sandy beaches and hiking trails. There are also three developed and supervised beaches on Lac de Vouglans where swimming is permitted.

Anyone choosing La Tour-du-Meix as a holiday destination will want to find a holiday apartment here.

Water

The Pont de la Pyle is 351 m long, 9 m wide and 74 m high. The Port du Meix in La Tour-du-Meix, also known as Port du Surchauffant, is intended in particular for speedboats and water skiing. Cruises on Lac de Vouglans depart from Port du Meix (Pont de la Pyle) aboard the Bateau le Louisiane.

History and culture

The Château de la Tour-du-Meix was built from the 12th century onwards and remodelled by the abbots of Saint-Claude. The fortress of the Château de la Tour-du-Meix controlled the Pyle gorge, which formed one of the entrances to the abbots’ extensive domain in the Haut-Jura.

The Église Saint-Christophe is one of the oldest religious buildings in the Jura. The Église Saint-Christophe contains the carved, painted and polychrome wooden statues known as “statues: Vierge et saint Jean”; they were entered in the register of movable cultural heritage on 9 December 1996.

Hiking trails and route

There is a car park for the “Les Falaises du Surchauffant” hiking trail at the Surchauffant campsite in La Tour-du-Meix. The 12 km-long “Les Falaises du Surchauffant” hiking trail passes the ruins of the Château de la Tour-du-Meix.

The 150 km-long, signposted Route des Lacs leads to the listed church of La Tour-du-Meix and recommends stops at Port du Meix and Surchauffant Beach.

More destinations

More local pages: Longchaumois, Cuvier (Jura), Nevy-lès-Dole, Mont-Sous-Vaudrey, Plasne, Le Larderet, Jouhe, Rochefort-Sur-Nenon.

To the higher-level travel overview: Jura.