Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Verdale

Latouille-Lentillac

Tradition relates that in 1349, at the height of the plague, the Virgin appeared to a shepherdess named Élisabeth while, not far away, a woodcutter discovered a small wooden statue beside a rock. The villagers who tried to raise a chapel elsewhere saw their work collapse each night, so it is said, until a hammer thrown as an offering fell back at the foot of the rock, marking the intended spot. The legendary dating remains uncertain, but a stone of the doorway carved with the date 1315 and a 14th-century statue bear witness to the sanctuary's genuine antiquity.

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Getting there : Reached by a small road and then a path above the Tolerme torrent; an isolated site in open countryside.

Opening times and access details are given as a guide only: check before you set out.

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