THE BURG
Because the sun shines from morning to night and is the heather paradise, the Monédières are in Chaumeil what folk songs and musettes balls are to Jean Ségurel. This small village, where the landscape bends around the circus of Freysselines, claims the title of the capital of the Monédières and the homeland quality of the hailing scanners. The native country of the musician who was behind the cycling test «Bol des Monédières», to which Bobet, Anquetil and Poulidor participated. Nestled in the heart of the Massif massif, Chaumeil, the name of which evokes ancient thatched roofs, is a word from the former Occitan "calm" which, in its "chalm" limousine form, means lande, bare height, desert plateau. We quickly fall under the charm of old buildings to traditional architecture typical of the Monédières: marked stone at the pinnacle of many houses (phallic symbol from pagan rites, fertility guarantee), slate roofs, imposing pink granite facades.