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Besset Gate – Pradelles loop from Langogne
08:06
28.7km
610m
Hiking
Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: June 26, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Parking
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74 m
Langogne
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The town is also home to some cultural gems that are worth a visit such as the Chastanier sacred art museum, the thousand-year-old city of Langogne or the Filature des Calquières museum.
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La Halle aux Grains
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Velay and South of France, Langogne
emerges from its ramparts in the 18th century
century. In 1743, Dom Ambroise de
Fleury, Prior of the city, made
build the Hall, with its
fourteen pillars, one of the most
large preserved in France.
It is a place for the exchange of cereals, farm products, leather, local wool, for chestnuts from the Cévennes, wines and oils from Provence, and other goods from the South and the Mediterranean.
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7.56 km
Ron de la Baoume
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If you then walk a little further along the Stevenson path, you will pass a nice rest area with many benches and tables and very large spruce trees, some of which were already there in Stevenson's time.
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19.3 km
Bucolic path
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22.3 km
Besset Gate
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We can clearly see the structure of the gate, with a first arch, behind which the heavy iron portcullis slid (in the slides dug into the stone), and a second arch against which the heavy wooden gate pivoting on iron hinges was closed. (part of which is still sealed in the wall) and locked by wooden bars anchored in notches cut in the stone.
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22.4 km
Porte de la Verdette
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At the heart of the wars of religion, a Protestant troop, attempting to seize the city which commanded the passage between the Rhône valley and the town of Puy, was repulsed after a fierce battle at the end of which the captain of the attackers had his helmet. enclosed” by a stone.
Nevertheless, Jacques de Chambaud survived and still had the opportunity to distinguish himself in the service of Henri IV, before dying of congestion in 1600.
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22.4 km
Pradelles
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22.7 km
Chapel of Our Lady at Saint James Hospital
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The statue of Notre-Dame, of which Robert-Louis Stevenson wrote, in 1878, "that it worked many miracles although it was made of wood", was discovered in 1512 near this hospital in a wooden chest buried at a unknown period. She was placed in the chapel adjoining the hospital.
The current Notre-Dame chapel was built by the Dominicans, the first stone was laid on May 8, 1613. The bell tower was raised in 1655.
The chapel was restored and redecorated from 1867 to 1876, the bell tower was remodeled in 1879, to accommodate the Bourdon (large bell with a deep sound). The stone dome topped with the statue of the Virgin was completed in 1889.
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28.7 km
End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
14.8 km
7.35 km
4.79 km
1.02 km
652 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
11.0 km
7.59 km
6.59 km
2.17 km
952 m
403 m
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Highest point (1,140 m)
Lowest point (900 m)
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Thursday 9 July
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