Travel Guide Montarcher

A small medieval village situated on a rocky spur, Montarcher stands in the heart of the Forez Mountains and Auvergne. With its 75 inhabitants and its 1 162 m altitude, it is the highest municipality of the Loire. Montarcher has a very stated character: its calm, its dominant position, its pastoral environment and its historical past make it a place that gives you a hug if you visit it in relative solitude. This rocky rock housed a detachment of Roman archers which oversaw the intersection of two strategic tracks, a few kilometres south. From here, the name "mount of Archers". In the Middle Ages, a dungeon and a double town couronnaient. It was then that the date of the current church, first of all a simple chapel of the castle. From the th century, the choir remains with a apse in a cul. The nave and transepts with croisées voûtes date back to the th century. Under the porch, the statue was sealed in the christian period. The wind can blow on this village, the houses are nestle away from the shelter of la. This confrontation with nature, in a vast countryside of rural beauty, deeply impresses.