Les Sources de l'Ouche

To get there, leave your car near the cemetery, then take the Chemin de Presles for 1500 m. There, at the bottom of a narrow, wooded valley, stretches a long, green meadow, always cool, even in summer. The Presles spring, the official symbol of the Ouche springs, can be reached by a double staircase leading down from the path to a rocky grotto. The grotto, built in 1931, houses a 16th-century statue of the Virgin and Child. At the foot of the grotto, a basin collects water for the sick and pilgrims who, as in Lourdes, come to implore the Virgin. Between 1,000 and 1,500 pilgrims came to pray to the Virgin every year between 1930 and 1945. The Ouche is a collection of 7 springs, including the miraculous Presles spring, which is said to have cured meningitis and kidney ailments.