Château de Val
Six round towers standing on the water. When the Bort dam flooded the valley, the castle found itself on a peninsula — and became the emblem of Haute-Corrèze. You can visit it, and swim at its foot.
The Area
The house sits in the heart of Haute-Corrèze, where Auvergne meets Limousin. The Dordogne has cut dizzying gorges here, dammed into vast reservoirs; the Millevaches regional park begins a few kilometres away.
It is also one of the purest skies in France: the region is a designated International Dark Sky Reserve. On summer nights you can see the Milky Way with the naked eye, from the lawn.
Around the house
Worth seeing
The Bort-les-Orgues dam
A hundred and twenty metres high, holding back a twenty-kilometre lake. Just above stand the orgues of Bort: vast phonolite columns, eighty metres tall, from which the whole plateau opens out below you.
The Dordogne gorges
The river winds along the bottom of deep gorges, between the dams. You can travel them by canoe, by barge, on foot or by bike. The viewpoints come one after another, and it is never crowded.
Millevaches regional park
A plateau of moorland, peat bogs and forest, a UNESCO biosphere reserve. Hundreds of kilometres of walking paths, mountain-bike trails and gravel routes.
On the water
The sailing club is in the village itself. Canoeing, kayaking, paddleboarding, sailing, swimming: the Bort reservoir and Lac de la Triouzoune are a morning away.
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