MARCOLES TOWN HALL
Artisan stores add to the charm and picturesqueness of the little townRead more
THE OLD TOWN
The village of Montsalvy boasts the remains of an abbey, a church, a ...Read more
THE VOTIVE GARDEN ANNA DE NOAILLES
Read moreIt was here that the poet-novelist composed her famous poem Paradis à Amphion. On the shores of Lake Geneva, the small pink stone temple houses a central column bearing a golden urn in its rotunda. It contains the heart of Anna de Noailles. It is engraved with a quatrain composed by the poetess and destined for her sepulchral temple. The votive monument, signed by the architect Jose Emilio Terry, was erected in the garden of the Villa Bassara where she stayed for the last time in 1916.
LE MAS DAUDET
Museum and park in Saint-Alban-Auriolles, the birthplace of Alphonse ...Read more
RABANESSE CASTLE
15th century castle with a square watchtower and a platform that served as ...Read more
BUCKWHEAT WALL
Well-hidden vestige, located at the bottom of a parking lot of a building.Read more
PANLOUP CASTLE
Read moreA castle that you can contemplate from outside. You will discover a building of polychrome bricks, and will probably be seduced by its lanternons towers. The walk can also be an opportunity to walk in the surrounding park with beautiful trees: bald cypress, Lebanon cedar, centennial plane, rouvre oak, chestnut trees, or copalme of America.
THE MILLS OF THE BOUBLE
Read moreIt is well known, the most beautiful places are revealed to the walkers. Thus, by arpetant the streets of Louroux and especially the banks of the Bouble, you will fall nose nose with several mills, which is worth a look. Among other things: The Moulin de Boutevin, damaged by time, the Moulin Berthon, or the Moulin de Villonne, which is located near the town of Echassières, and you can visit.
VIADUCT OF THE BOUBLE
Read moreLike its to Coustansouze, Rouzat and Neuvial, the Bouble viaduct was built by the Eiffel Company. It is 66 m high. Its central part is 300 m in length, and consists of 6 metal spans, whereas the abutment side of the Côté side is composed of 7 masonry spans. Not far from there, there are 2 other viaducts, that of the Vallée Valley, 48 m high and 231 m long, with 3 metal spans and 7 piers, and that of the Perrières.
BISHOPS' PALACE
Today, the palace is privately owned, and a large part of it is open to ...Read more
THE LARGE FARMHOUSE WITH COLUMNS FROM THE XVIITH CENTURY.
THE TUNNEL
Read moreThis tunnel, located between Ebreuil and Menat, really looks like a cave. It is difficult to say far that it is a tunnel! It could very well be the den of any ancient monster… In addition to facilitating exchanges with the Combrailles, the tunnel is appreciated by sportsmen, since it offers 50 climbing lanes, from 4 to 7 a (assessment to gauge the difficulty of an escalation path).
HEAD HOUSE
The Maison des Têtes, an architectural jewel combining flamboyant Gothic ...Read more
PLM STATION
Read moreThe station is a central monument to the city. We come to take the train, of course, but not just. The numerous restaurants, bars and shops attached, attract many tourists and vichyssois, who after completing their meal, their glass or their races, like to stop on the square that precedes it to discuss, or dreaming if time lends itself. Opened in May 1862, the station was built on the plans of architect Denis Darcy. Enlarged in 1977, but deteriorated in its facade, it will find its beautiful imperial appearance of origin only in 2008.
DOLMEN DE LOUBARESSE
This listed dolmen dates back to the Neolithic period.Read more
CASTLE OF THE SIRES OF FAUCIGNY
Castle of the XIIIth century, the oldest in Savoy and Haute-Savoie, last ...Read more
MONT-CENIS RAILWAY TUNNEL
A 12.5 kilometer long tunnel at Modane, revealed by the installation of a ...Read more
LOZES ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK
Archaeological park with educational trail in Aussois, a precious witness ...Read more
Ascent to the tower of the Saint-Etienne castle
Read moreA guide proposes to discover the tower of Saint-Étienne Castle on Wednesdays of July and August. Overlooking the city, the square tower of the castle offers a pleasant panorama of Aurillac and its surroundings. Aurillac is also one of the three highest prefectures in France! The castle has successively housed abbots, prefects and teachers before becoming the Museum des Volcans in the late 1990 s. It now contains explanations and illustrations about the functioning of the earth and the formation of the auvergnat landscape.
Tariff: € 4,50 (€ 2,50 for children aged 6 to 18).
Duration: 1 h.
Difficulty: easy.
On reservation only. Departure subject to a minimum of 8 persons registered.
LE VIEUX PONT MÉDIÉVAL
This old bridge evokes an ancient route leading from the Allier valley to ...Read more
THE PLUVY CASTLE
A building with a contrasting appearance, a barn that was transformed into ...Read more
BUMBLEBEE TOWER CASTLE
Castle built on a strategic site equipped with a bell to ring the tocsin in ...Read more
REPATRIATION CASTLE
A castle with an Italianate character, supported by its Renaissance ...Read more
HOUSE OF THE CHANCELLOR DUPRAT
Private mansion at the junction of Place de la République and Rue ...Read more
ARCADE HOUSE
This house is characteristic of medieval town houses, with a first floor ...Read more
CLÉMENT HOTEL
Renovated 15th-century mansion dating back to Issoire's heyday, with ...Read more
CHARRIER HOTEL
15th-century mansion featuring a flamboyant Gothic doorway with a network ...Read more
HOTEL BOHIER
Hotel being the former house of the Echevins, the town councillors of the ...Read more
HOTELS
Read moreIt is around 1827 that La Bourboule has its first hotels, but starting in 1860 the real transformation began. The first hotel to be built is the Grand Hotel de l'Etablissement, next to the thermal Baths. The old Palace Hotel was built Avenue avenue near the same time. Hotel Métropole, work of Teillard, Hotel des Iles britanniques de Gradin, Hotel Richelieu will follow.
MARKET BRIDGE
A pretty medieval bridge crosses the Angaud river, where you can see ...Read more
COURT BUILDING
Read moreIt was built on the location of the Duke of Berry Palace at the beginning of the th century, when the court of appeal came to Riom. Degeorge raised a fairly austere building in neoclassical style, with a courtyard lined with arcades. The double-ramp inside staircase depends on its dimensions.
HOTEL GUYMONEAU
Read moreBuilt towards 1530-1550, it has a very beautiful inner courtyard with corbel staircase decorated with a annunciation and four medallions representing the cardinal Virtues.
HOTEL D'AUREILHE
A hotel with ramparts, a main building, winegrowers' buildings and a square ...Read more
AN INN SO WELCOMING..
Read moreThe Auberge Rouge, located after Lanarce on the edge of the road, seems to be so welcoming for travellers… And yet, this place made famous by a novel, which was brilliantly adapted to the cinema twice - with the excellent and irresistible Fernandel first, then with a humour certainly grinding by Claude Autan-Lara with the Splendid team -let's not just leave good ones. memories of the imprudent who dared to enter the last century! Indeed, it was the place of sordid crimes that would défrayèrent the chronicle.
At the beginning, the history of the Auberge Rouge is "counter-revolutionary". Its owners, the Martin-Blanc, had been part of the bands of Chouans who were fighting the few gendarmes of Judge Enjolras, the Montagnes of the Mountains. But these troublemakers seemed to have subsided with the return of the Monarchy. So they wanted this Inn, which seemed to be a haven of peace and rest for the traveler harassé by a long road in desolate places and sorry. The problem for these travellers was that once they got rid of their stock exchange they were coming out of the hostel only by the chimney! The armoury lasted until a refugee in the barn denounced the case to the gendarmes. Owners and their home did not escape the guillotine - they were executed in front of the macabre Inn, at the very place of their packages, in 1833. Sensationalism fans will not be disappointed by the visit of the places that have kept a special atmosphere maintained by a guide just as special…
THE BRISON TOWER
The last vestige of an ancient fortified castle whose history remains a ...Read more
THE FAUCET BRIDGE
Neoclassical suspension bridge built over the Rhône in 1847, now listed as ...Read more
REMAINS OF THE FEUDAL CASTLE
Read moreIt is here, overlooking the city, that the remains of the feudal castle of the dukes of Bourbon and Urfé are found. Nearby, we find the chapel Notre-Dame-du-Château, Gothic style (of the xivth century and Gothic style where the funeral of Anne d 'Urfé was held, which was under Charles IX third royal bailli of the Forez and gentleman of the king.
SAINT-MARCEL CASTLE
Read moreSaint-Marcel-de-Feline is an old village facing the Forez Mountains. The castle blends perfectly into its heart, close to the square and the church and on its edge along the hills and valleys. The castle of Saint-Marcel is an ancient house whose origin dates back to the th century and which underwent transformation after the Middle Ages, only in the th and th centuries, restored in an Italian Renaissance style that gives it its current appearance. Classified in historic monuments, this square block is surrounded by deep ditches, presents an inner courtyard with covered galleries and an interesting series of rooms furnished inside.
WELL
Read moreAfter the well dug in 1882 for the Maison du Bureau de Bienfaisance, the municipal council is harassed by the population of the village. Indeed, the lack of water is increasingly penalising the inhabitants of the village. The municipal council then unanimously decided to entrust the construction of a public well to an architect of Roanne. Work will begin in 1885. This water sink situated on the Church square has the particularity of being as deep as the church bell is high, about 25 m.
THE OLD VILLAGE
Visit a medieval relic undergoing an impressive restoration project in ...Read more
CHÂTEAU DE SAINT-GERVAZY
13th century castle with 3 corner towers in Saint-Gervazy, possibility to ...Read more
CALVARY OF THE SACRED HEART
Temple with 3 artificial grottoes, containing the 14 stations of Calvary ...Read more
THE FOUNTAIN OF BACCHUS
Read moreSurmounted by the statue of God, it was built in memory of viticulture, which was a particularly important source of profit in the th century.
CHÂTEAU DE VIRIEU
This medieval castle was the property of the lords of Pélussin and played ...Read more
THE JURARY
Read moreThis house was built by the Pères fathers.
CASTLE VILLAGES
Read moreBuilt in the th century with the permission of King Henri III by Claude Villars, Captain and Squire de Condrieu. Since 1832, he belongs to the Roque family. The building has been listed in the Historical Monuments Inventory since the late 1980 s.
THE BELFRY HOUSE
A mysterious house in Malleval, also known as the House of the Hangman.Read more
SAINT-BERNARD CASTLE
Medieval castle of the painter Utrillo with thematic gardens, which hosts ...Read more
MONTFLEURY CASTLE
A castle steeped in history, housing an archaeological and military ...Read more