Puy Lagarde, Mountain summit in Faux-la-Montagne, France

Puy Lagarde is a mountain summit near Faux-la-Montagne that rises to about 795 meters. Its slopes are covered with natural vegetation characteristic of the forested landscape found throughout the Limousin region.

Puy Lagarde marks the western edge of the Millevaches plateau, on the boundary between Faux-la-Montagne in the Creuse and Beaumont-du-Lac in Haute-Vienne, of which it is the highest point. It rises above the puy de Crozat and mont Gargan, sometimes wrongly taken for the highest summits. Its wooded top holds an altar and a calvary of three concrete crosses.

At the wooded summit stands a calvary of three concrete crosses, alongside an altar. The cross visible in the photograph is a bare, weathered timber beam set into the grass, without figure or inscription. Walkers on the forest tracks pass these markers at the highest point of Beaumont-du-Lac commune.

The wooded summit is reached by forest exploitation tracks, not waymarked hiking trails, so bring a map and expect rough, unsigned junctions. The summit lies on the boundary between Faux-la-Montagne in the Creuse and Beaumont-du-Lac in Haute-Vienne, and the approach is on foot only.

The wooded summit holds an altar and a calvary of three concrete crosses, not the single timber cross seen in some images. Beaumont-du-Lac's highest point, it rises above the puy de Crozat and mont Gargan, which are sometimes wrongly named the tallest summits.