Discovering aurillac

Discover our city and our museums, meet our local craftsmen and our products, visit our factorys site, our castles...

guided tour of the old aurillac  Guided tour of the old Aurillac : it includes among other things the visite of Saint-Etienne Castle : place of pilgrimage, on the way of Saint-Jacques-of-Compostelle. The most prestigious pupil of this abbey was Gerbert... you will discover its history along your road. This castle shelters today the Museum of the Volcanos and the Permanent Initiative Center of for Environment.

aurillac, umbrella's capital : green country  Visit Saint-Etienne Cantalès Dam  Traditional cantalian meal  Visite of an Umbrella factory  Visit the Weather station

Discover the légendaire and auvergnat wine  Sight seeing on Cantal mounts at the top of the Pas de Peyrol  Visit of Jean-Pierre LALLET's Buron  Soil product tasting with a meal in Salers  Commented Visite of Salers  Wine tasting ( Légendaire) with accompanying notes of by Pierre DESPRAT

what to see in tehe town  the Humans rights statue : was inaugurated in 1890, in memory of the victims of racist persecutions and anti-semites and the crimes against humanity. On the base, the Universal Declaration of the Humans right was affixed in 1998 at the time of its fiftieth anniversary. Gravel - Monthyon Course to see at the end of the Gravel the Statue of the Delzons General, inaugurated in 1883 in the presence of Pasteur and of the General Baker. You walk on the Gravel, arranged in walk since 1672: principal place of sociability of the city at the end of the XIXe century. With semi-course of this walk, discover the Kiosk of 1890. Gravel, you will see the frontage of the old Prefecture of Empire style (1801/1812); the Monthyon column and the Convent of the Boxwood (XIIIe century).

Garden of the carmelite,a garden rich in history  Garden of the Carmelite friars a garden rich in history since its creation in 1668: brood Visitation, until the revolution, these places were occupied by the stud farms of 1806 to 1983, the restored enclosures are now occupied by the Museum of Art and Archaeology.

Maison consulaire,characteristics of the rebirth  This house was the meeting place of the town consuls of Aurillac since 1280. It carries characteristics of the Rebirth in its architectural elements and its reasons for decoration, with Gothic reminiscences, the door in particular. To see on the door, the blazon of Aurillac