TOURISM
Of Sioule to Allier it
It is here that the novelist Henri Pourrat
makes begin Limagne, that it called "girl of the volcanos".
But for crossing the doors "of true Auvergne, that of the mountains",
it is necessary to cross this band wooded and flowered which makes
the connection with bourbonnais. Limited by Sioule which impatient
by corroding its granite walls, the country is done smiling more and
more as one advances towards the east. In Randan, on stones left by
Combining it to the son centuries, the largest forest of plain of
Auvergne becomes green before making place in the marsh, a ground
drained by the Romans and squared like a scrap-metal. For the pleasure
of the kings who liked to be made there receive, one drew up churches
there and castles and it is even here, with the castle of Montpensier
that Louis VIII returned the last sigh.
Circuit : Gannat - Throats of Chouvigny
- Viaduct of the Insipid ones - Castle of Chazeron - Chatelguyon -
Riom - Maringues - Châteldon - Aigueperse - Castle of Effiat
- Castle of Tournoël
Possible turning by Castle of Pontgibaud and Clermont Ferrand
A la découverte de la France : Sélection du Reader's Digest
