Sentier de l'Abbaye / Abadiako bidexka
Lahonce is a real balcony on the valley of Adour, ancestral way of circulation and exchanges. From its 12th century abbey, which has been wonderfully renovated, here is a walk that is as quick as it is intimate in an adjoining wooded valley, conducive to an almost monastic introspection.
The village of Lahonce occupies a real balcony on the fertile valley of the Adour; it is here, at the crossroads of the waterways and other trade routes, that the monks of the Premonstratensian Order built an abbey in 1164. In turn a bastion of evangelisation, an agricultural building, a military hospital and finally a parish church, the Romanesque building has kept its integrity over the centuries and has recently been renovated. If the abbey is the main attraction of this walk, discovered from all angles, its immediate environment is also in the spotlight. Along discreet paths where you might think you are a convert and in search of a place of meditation, the route visits a wooded valley with lush vegetation, a forest of abundance where mosses and ferns are at their best, then it goes through the heights of the village among the houses of traditional architecture.
