La vallée des Eaux-Claires

The Eaux-Claires valley cuts into the plateau on which Puymoyen is built, a commune in the Charente about 4 kilometres south-east of Angoulême. The plateau peaks there at around 130 metres' altitude. The stream that carved the valley joins the Charente at Saint-Michel-d'Entraigues.

The limestone walls bordering the valley are renowned for climbing. The slopes, covered with holm oaks and flora of a pre-Mediterranean type, are crossed by marked paths, including the long-distance routes GR 4 and GR 36 that pass through the commune. In the village you can see the Romanesque church of Saint-Vincent, dating from the twelfth century, and the Moulin du Verger, a former paper mill dating back to the sixteenth century and still working. Long rural, Puymoyen became from the 1960s a residential commune on the outskirts of Angoulême.

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