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 arcaded courtyard and its large vaulted stables.
It's in the farmland south of Issoire, near the Romanesque churches of the Auvergne.
The highest of the Chaîne des Puys, a line of about 80 extinct volcanoes in the Auvergne, which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site with the Limagne fa…
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…
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.
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 medieval village of stone houses with slate roofs clinging to a steep hillside, around the Romanesque abbey church of Sainte-Foy, a great stop on t…
A Renaissance château built in the 1520s by Jeanne de Balzac for her son, who was killed in the Italian wars.
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