The Indre, which very few of us know perfectly well on the map of France, does not tell us much.
And yet, this department has two treasures.
Berry and Brenne.
If the first ignites the imagination of romantics, the second reveals a wonder of nature.
Crisscrossed with straight roads that seem endless, the territory reveals a multitude of ponds.
How much exactly?
"A thousand and one ponds"?
This little marketing invention reproduced in abundance in publications associates in the imagination
The Thousand and One Nights
with which the territory shares the complete change of scenery.
But we are far from reality.
According to a more precise count, carried out by a university in the Center-Val de Loire region, there are 3,500!
The GPS of the car that takes us there is not mistaken and is colored with dark spots of various shapes like the skin of a Dalmatian.
This astonishing landscape - the word is weak as the accumulation seems extraordinary - has been entirely shaped
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