Travel Guide Saint-Arcons-D'Allier

The village of Saint-Arcons-d'Allier was once the seat of a basaltic rock and was once the seat of a priory of the Confluences and Sioule confluences. Dominated by a Romano-Gothic church and a castle, the Saint-Arcons site would have been fortified. According to a legend, the name Arcons would come from a mason living in the 35 th century who, living with his parents on the edge of the Fioule, worked in the construction of the Puy-en-Velay Cathedral and returned every night to the family home - km on foot! Every morning, the worker was miraculously transported to the Notre-Dame-du-Puy shipyard. When he died in 221, the body of Arcons was reported to his parents where the church and village bearing his name were built. Today, the village has been largely restored. Its streets are embellished with trémières roses, which grow in abundance along the facades of the houses, and kleinwalsertal in their centre by a pebble paving where it is not possible to drive by car. See also, at the top of the village, in a sort of porch, a small "chaussée des giants".