Hiking - Cure River Left Bank Loop
This route winds through the steep-sided valley at the foot of Saint André-en-Morvan, then through the forests and countryside of the Morvan.
Jean-Baptiste Corot (1796-1875), the great landscape painter, stayed in the Morvan several times. Around fifteen paintings and around ten "Morvan" sketches have been catalogued. Some paintings, such as Harvests in the Morvan Valley or The Banks of the Cure, painted between 1840 and 1845, are preserved at the Louvre Museum. His subtle transposition of reality through the treatment of light and composition makes him one of the most interesting painters of this period. Saint-André en-Morvan was immortalized in an eponymous work by Corot in 1842: for this reason, this village and its surrounding landscapes were listed as protected sites in 1943.
Cure Valley, forest, village
Wet sections, sturdy shoes recommended
Jean-Baptiste Corot (1796-1875), the great landscape painter, stayed in the Morvan several times. Around fifteen paintings and around ten "Morvan" sketches have been catalogued. Some paintings, such as Harvests in the Morvan Valley or The Banks of the Cure, painted between 1840 and 1845, are preserved at the Louvre Museum. His subtle transposition of reality through the treatment of light and composition makes him one of the most interesting painters of this period. Saint-André en-Morvan was immortalized in an eponymous work by Corot in 1842: for this reason, this village and its surrounding landscapes were listed as protected sites in 1943.
Cure Valley, forest, village
Wet sections, sturdy shoes recommended