Ruud Streefkerk

The Cirque de Navacelles is a large basin-shaped valley on the southern edge of the Massif Central in France. The valley was formed about 3 million years ago by glacial erosion. Then the river Vis cut right through the valley, creating a horseshoe lake that dried up later on. There is also a myth associated with the Cirque.The crater is said to have been created by a hoof print of the horse of the giant Gargantua, the father of another well-known giant, Pantagruel. Of these two figures, father and son, created in the16th century by the French humanist François Rabelais, traces and myths can be found throughout France.