Monuments to visit Auvergne

This second-class bathroom, opened for the first time to bathers in June 1858, was built by the British architect Charles Badger, who also signed the Company's Cottage and the Casino. Recently, in 2008, the gallery was set up in a café-restaurant, where there are no fewer than 500 appointments (singing and dance courses, exhibitions, conferences, workshops…), spread over the months of October to May.

On foot or by bike, but definitely more by train, the old railway connecting Montluçon to the thermal city of Neris-les-Bains today offers a nice walk: a 6 km low distance route with views. And because of it! You will not free less than four viaducts, the highest of which is 51 meters high. Unless you have the verge, families and friends will surely find their happiness!

Tariff: free.

Distance: 6 km.

Difficulty: easy.

Started in 1935, the construction of the Eagle Dam was completed only in 1945. It was nicknamed the «Resistance Dam», because its construction site housed the Cantal Army Resistance Organization during World War II. The shadow amée voluntarily delayed its construction, so as not to offer additional energy power to the occupier. The Eagle Dam is also distinguished by its architecture. It is 290 m long and 90 m high. The construction of a fifth production group in 1982 makes it the most powerful EDF in the Dordogne basin with an installed power of 360 MW. A guide will make you discover the operation of hydroelectricity and allow you to enter the heart of the EDF's EDF plant. An industrial heritage that contributes to the duty of memory: it is essential!

Like most castles in the surrounding area, that of the Écherolles visits only from outside. But this is enough to be dazzled. Its vast park first planted, on the edge of the Allier, but also its neo-Gothic style. It is estimated that it was built between the th and th centuries. You can see the two tours towers, the sculpted windows, the échauguettes, and the round stable.

Bought by the municipality in 1876, the building housing the town hall was once a convent welcoming the nuns of Saint-Ursule. The statue of Michel from the Hospital stands in the courtyard. The stone stairs of Volvic are modern construction. Its belfry, built in 1771, houses a jacquemart to three characters of the th century and the old bells of Notre-Dame church.

To find this beautiful castle and visit its park in free access, go to the th century church and then take the direction of Montaigu-le-Blin. Hérissant of its towers the marshy plain surrounding it, Le Méage is a strong house known as 1272. The castle and its courtyard are surrounded by water moat; its avant courtyard is closed by a portal of wrought iron. Linked to these moat, a small stream runs along the north-west aisle. A circular basin was installed by the owner between the prairie and the castle. Signage provides explanations and elements on the history of the site.

This dungeon is one of the last vestiges of the feudal castle. It was built in the first half of the fifteenth by the Nesmond brothers. He rises on a slight eminence, on the edge of the stream the Drop of the Ré. Quadrangular shape is particularly high, since it has no less than five levels. Each was divided into two pieces that kept their chimney. The third floor is occupied by a first attic that gives access to the round road above the corbeaux à, which li the top of the dungeon. The second attic covered with the roof covered two watchtower located above the rectangular turrets. To the south of the dungeon came the th century buildings, which houses a apothicairerie where an interesting collection of pharmacy pots from the th to the th. This room was followed by the poor and sick room, which opened the chapel with a single nave with a flat bedside adorned with woodwork and stucco. Since the 1900 th century, Gayette has been increasing many buildings and in particular a wing in the extension of the th century, to the south-west of the dungeon, built around.