Chapelle Notre-Dame de Mazières

Hauteville-Lompnes

Local tradition, gathered by a historian of the Hauteville plateau, tells that woodcutters saw near a stream a woman carrying a child, surrounded by light; on drawing near, they found only a statue of the Virgin, which they believed they had seen alive. Carried in procession to the village church, it is said to have risen into the air and come back down to its original spot, prompting the building of a shrine. Comparable tales exist elsewhere in the Ain; a single source to date.

Louis Henri Guy, chroniques du plateau d'Hauteville (source unique identifiée) ↗

Getting there : Set in the Mazières forest, on the path to the Col de la Rochette, near the Trou de la Marmite waterfall

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

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