A Romanesque cathedral at the top of the old town of Le Puy-en-Velay, with Moorish-style striped arches and a famous Black Virgin. It is the traditional starting point of the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela. The cloister has polychrome arches and carved capitals.
Climb to the Rocher Corneille and the statue of Notre-Dame de France, and to the chapel of Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe on its needle of rock.
A distinctive cone-shaped volcanic peak in the Ardèche mountains, at the foot of which rises the River Loire, the longest river in France.
A château in the Auvergne built around 1500 for Rigaud d'Aureille, a steward of the French kings, known for its rare Renaissance wall paintings, its …
A deep canyon carved by the River Tarn between the limestone plateaus of the Causses, with villages of stone such as Sainte-Énimie and La Malène alon…
A huge natural stone arch, 54 metres high, spanning the Ardèche river at the entrance to its gorges, where limestone cliffs rise 300 metres above the…
One of the largest and most beautiful show caves in France, discovered in 1935, with vast chambers full of giant stalagmites up to 20 metres tall.
A pyramid-shaped summit at the heart of the Cantal volcano, the largest ancient volcano in Europe, with green valleys radiating out like the spokes o…
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