Hiking trail - Alpine pasture secrets

An easy walk to discover the sculptures of the Plaine-Joux Plateau, carved from monolithic blocks of marble limestone and arranged in a semicircle 100 meters apart from each others.

During the first Plaine-Joux Plateau Sculpture Symposium in July 2012, four sculptors traveled to the plateau to work on their masterpieces, chiseling, polishing, and bringing them to life... in monolithic blocks of marble limestone placed 100 meters apart from each others. Roger Dunoyer's project: He began his work on the first block, whose meteorite shape inevitably suggested to him the birth of the world. A shooting star and its light cross the surface of the block, ending up at the center of the earth to put down a human fetus. Janpol's project: Since it was discovered X million years ago in the Baré cave, Janpol worked on a rock with a cave cat skull where it lived during the Paleolithic era, and on the second rock, a few engravings (in relief) that lead us to this more recent ancestor, the Homo sapiens. Isabelle Milleret's project: Her work was to highlight the symbolism of a place like Plaine-Joux : to create a crossroads in the form of a star or intersection of lines. Eventually indicating the north-south and east-west axes (compass rose) or the location of the four surrounding municipalities (Bogève, Mégevette, Onnion, Villard). Yann Narzabal's project: His work consists of expressing the sedentarization and settlement of humans from ancient times to the present day : the era when humans acquired the knowledge and techniques to build their homes as we know them today in the traditional architecture of our region. Carving a block of stone into a work of art, a phenomenal feat accomplished in a single day by these four sculptors ! Walkthrough available by clicking on the printer icon.