LA MINE BLEUE

Unique site in Europe, the Blue Mine offers you an unusual adventure 126 meters underground! A walking tour with about 200 steps where comfortable shoes are highly recommended! In the heart of the old mining site, the guided tour in the galleries and extraction chambers invites you to a real journey into the past. Step by step in the heart of a site with a constant temperature of 13°C, you will discover the origin of the slate, its exploitation techniques and more generally, the life of these men who extracted and reassembled the blue stone at the beginning of the 20th century. On the surface, in the continuity of the visit, you will discover the great stages of the making of a slate according to the methods of the past. To cut, to quern, to split and to round, are so many words with which you will be able to familiarize yourself, demonstration with the support.