PIERRE BRANLANTE DE CHATEAUNEUF

The shaky stone is a rock in an unstable situation, located at the exit of the village, below the road that leaves the village along the cemetery. The explanatory panel assigned to it indicates that a simple pressure of the hand is enough to make it move. The rock is in fact balanced on its granite base.

The shaky stone, because of its particular shape, is also nicknamed the "Gargantua's hoof". Legend has it that Gargantua or a giant named Roland (as found in the Legends of Gévaudan by B. Bardy) left his hoof there.

The site is part of a route called "Le Chemin de Ronde", which goes around the village of Châteauneuf-de-Randon.

Source: DREAL Languedoc-Roussillon, September 2007.