Lac de Vassivière

The Lake at Vassivière is artificial, created by damming the river Maulde. In the month of June, the hillsides all around were bright yellow with the flowering broom. At Whitsuntide a National Regatta is held here, and in early July a Gastronomic Festival of freshwater fish. A scenic road, rejoicing in the name of Route Circumlacustre, offers lots of spectacular views, and a footpath leads across a bridge to an island with an open-air museum of modern sculpture.