The 290-hectare Lac de la Liez is the only lake that can be admired from the city walls of Lingonne. Construction of the 460 m long, 16 m high dam was completed in 1888. The lake offers a wide range of activities (supervised swimming, pedalos, fishing, etc.) in a watersports resort with a wide range of services (campsite *****, hotels, restaurants, etc.). You can take a 16km walk or mountain bike ride around the lake.
The walk is available on the free Id-Vizit app!
Id-Vizit is your personal travel companion, offering you personalised, fun and interactive tours!
+ More info on Id-Vizit
For nature lovers :
The Liez (or Lecey) reservoir, created at the end of the 19th century, is one of four artificial reservoirs in the Langres area designed to ensure the navigability of the Marne-Saône canal. It is characterised by a river-like dynamic: the water level, which varies greatly depending on the time of year and the canal's water requirements, is very low in late summer and autumn.
Vegetation:
The arrangement of plant groups is essentially determined by the humidity gradient: floating vegetation with pondweeds and lentils characteristic of the bays of the lakes, inner belts (glyceria and reedbeds), outer belts (magnocariçaies with gracile sedge, shore sedge and two-spiked sedge, associations with baldingera and marsh bulrush), meadow vegetation subject to spring flooding and soil compaction, nitrophilous groups at the top of the banks, alluvial or marshy willow and highly artificial orma-fern.
Fauna:
The entomofauna, particularly dragonflies and damselflies, is rich and varied, with three species on the regional red list, the tawny dragonfly, the spring aeschne and a spectacular large species, the two-spotted cordulia. The lake, and more particularly its eastern coves and Lecey Bay, is attractive to birds (around fifty species have been recorded as breeding, wintering or passing through), including the great crested grebe and the little grebe (nesting in the eastern coves), various ducks that pass through on a more or less regular basis, and the black and red kites that nest in the riverside woods.
A very important heronry is located within the perimeter of the ZNIEFF. The reedbeds conceal the nests of a number of passerines (redstart, various wagtails, swallows, etc.), including the reed warbler and the grey flycatcher, both of which are listed as uncommon nesters on the Champagne-Ardenne red list of birds. Like the other reservoirs in the Langres region, it is of great interest for hunting and fishing.
Lac de la Liez
