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Visit massiac
 With the crossroads of the Cantal, of Puy de Dôme and the High Loire, the Country of Massiac is the place of ideal stay to discover Auvergne! CONTRASTS… Formed of deeply notched high plateaus of green valleys, the Country of Massiac offers panoramas imposing, a fauna and a flora rich person and varied… A wild and preserved nature. On these great spaces, the agricultural activity directed towards the breeding and the cheese-making production make Country of Massiac typically an area auvergnate. STONES… Land of welcome since the night of times, the Country of Massiac preserves the prints of the builders of prehistory at our days. Find the life of our ancestors using many testimonys that they bequeathed us: Archeological sites of the cave of the Rider with Aurouze, Necropolis of Rochette close to Auriac the Church. The following centuries left remarkable vestiges to the village of Saint Victor, religious buildings impregnated of the Romance style auvergnat: The Holy Vault Madeleine dominating Massiac, the Church of Leyvaux and its bell-tower out of comb, the Church of Poncy Saint of XIIème century….as well as robust medieval constructions: Turn Colombine de Molèdes, castle of Aurouze, vestiges of the priory of Bonnac and his castle… COLORS… You can observe in the valleys of Sianne and Alagnon, Palhàs, of the field terraces to the dry stone walls. Walk on in Palhàs de Molompize cultivated of vines, fruit trees and medicinal and aromatic plants. A path of interpretation will explain you the evolution of the site and the cultures in place. Come to discover the houses vigneronnes with “estre”, the arched cellars. A conservatory orchard with Auzit makes it possible to preserve and perpetuate old varieties. Visit to envisage with the Museum of the Rural Life with Massiac!! Indeed, the Valley of Alagnon has a long fruit-bearing, market-gardening and horticultural tradition. THE HEIGHT… Top of the mount Newspaper, you will be allured by the unspoilable view on the majestic unit of the mounts of the Cantal. It is from there that, known as the legend, Saint Mary installed in his stone pulpit, would have launched on both sides a hammer and a trowel: the hammer dug the valley where niche Saint Mary Cros while the trowel gave rise to the plate of Mary Saint the Lime pit. Two rocky outcrops of Holy Madeleine and Victor Saint, places in charge with history and legends overhangs the village of Massiac. But the climax of the Country of Massiac is, with the Breach of Giniol, 1.305 meters. The ESCAPE… More than 270 kms of ways marked out of all levels of difficulty are open. Give up with the beauty of the landscapes and the contemplation of fauna: roe-deers, tubes, sparrowhawks, milans and falcons. Fishermen, appreciate our rivers classified in 1st category, populated trouts farios, shades commun runs and chevesnes… Of the equestrian excursions, at the day or in stays, will make you discover a nature offered and generous. The HERITAGE… In the middle of Massiac, installed in the old stables of the castle of the marquis d' Espinchal, the museum of painting Elects famous Rieuf the single school of women painters of the 20th century. More than two hundred works of Carpentier Marijuana, C. Musson and Elise Rieuf (Originating in Massiac) there are exposed. The Country of Massiac, old mining center (gold, antimony and siver-bearing lead) created its mineralogical museum. Association Cézallier Vallée of Sianne contributes to the rehabilitation of the ancestral sites and proposes exposures on this invaluable inheritance. The CRAFT INDUSTRY… In Country of Massiac it is the transmission of ancestral know-how on the technique of the stained glasses; potteries in raku and wool knittings of Country. GASTRONOMY and our savours of soils… Come to taste simple products resulting from the agricultural and fruit-bearing activity: goat's milk cheeses, cheeses to the wood-worms, trouts farios, meat of the green countries, wines of Be sulky and apple juice. But also: the honey of Country, snails of the farm…. Water will assemble you to the mouth with our local specialities: Pastets with apples, the impossible to circumvent macaroon of Massiac, lava of Victor Saint…
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