Discover the haute loire department

Discover the cities to be visited in the department of the high loire… visit the most beautiful places of interest…

Abbaye de la chaise dieu  Visits guidees of the founded benedictine abbey at the 11th century whose Gothic church shelters a whole of splendid Flemish tapestries and one of the mural frescos of the macabre dance best the conservee of France as well as the cloitre…

Discover the town of bas-en-basset  Low - in-Basset hound, old strengthened city, car its etymology of the name of a Roman consul “Bassus " of the Gallo-Roman time. Imagine a vast plain where a river still child runs: The Loire. On each side of its banks a village grows, by mixing with happiness its houses, its industries, its farms.

Discover saint-julien-chapteuil  In midday of Auvergne, to two steps of Mézenc, this giant of the Cevennes, or Gerbier de Jonc and sources of the Loire, the volcanos of Meygal offer their strange forms and their landscapes. Very close to Puy in Velay, medieval old woman quoted, the visitor can enjoy a rich inheritance of a vivifying nature where await it stroll and excursions and to find a lodging of quality for a cure of country holidays. In the east of the Central Solid mass, in buttress of the Cevennes, you will be surprised by the country of Meygal. These strange domes, they are the oldest volcanos of the area: volcanos without craters, they resemble giant taupinières, pilot of the convulsions of the ground there are 11 or 12 million years. Their heavy black basalt or their sound phonolite gives an unexpected aspect to the always varied landscapes that the visitor will have pleasure to discover: it is the country of Juices The country of Meygal, they are these large forests of fir trees which the walker will like to traverse under the sun of the summer or the snow of the winter. The country of Meygal, it is as the native area of Jules Romains as it makes us discover in Knock or the Buddies. The country of Meygal, it is a multitude of pedestrian excursions or with VTT through always renewed landscapes. Strange volcanos, authentic inheritance, superb landscapes: as many reasons to come to see us in Country of Meygal.

Discover sainte-sigolene  Throats of Dunière  Strongly timbered, our territory permanently prone to is surprised and daydreams. The discovery of a splendid landscape to the turning of a way, a walk in forest where all the directions are in awakening, amazement with the sight of a savage animal where of pre where violets and brooms flower, all is emotions and feelings. Then what could be more encouraging and developing for us all, sigolènois and San palou, which to make you discover these two communes and to make so that they are for you source of curiosity, but also of pleasure and serenity.

Discover brioude  The Office of Tourism of Brioude and its Area wish you welcome in Auvergne and Haute-Loire. Brioude the Soft one, carries Throats Allier, you guides between mounts and valleys on the road of Saint-Jacob de Compostelle. It is around the Basilica Saint Julien, the vastest church Romance of Auvergne, that the city developed with the southernmost charm, today active sub-prefecture. Quality of life, protected nature, activities of leisures directed towards water and nature along the river To combine, make the Community of Communes of Brivadois a space privileged to accomodate you.

Puy en velay - a town out of time  Prefecture of Haute-Loire, Puy-in-Velay is the center of an agglomeration of 50.000 inhabitants. it is a crossroads commercial, administrative, school, cultural and sporting important whose dynamism flashes back on all the department. Puy-in-Velay is also the starting point of “Via Podiensis” towards Saint-Jacob de Compostelle in Spain, each year of many pilgrims leave Puy for a long initiatory course which will lead them to Conques.La Cathédrale of Puy is registered with the World Inheritance of UNESCO and one can also discover his Cloister of XIIème century, his Museum of Religious art and the environment of the high-city.

Le pays des sucs à yssingeaux  Our country will surprise you by his relief astonishing, made throats and juices. Top of these volcanic headlands, in a luminous atmosphere and without pollution, you will discover sumptuous landscapes: wild plates, throats of Lignon, the Loire Valley and hills green. Churches and castles are the heritage of the medieval time, marked by the power of the bishop of Puy-in-Velay. At the XIXème century, lace with the spindles on a square experiences an international development which you will be able to discover at the time of your stay. Of Juices the amateurs of sports of full nature like the Country, as well for the large ones the small ones. The summer, we propose to you on your arrival a cordial pot of reception and the weekly program of animations. The markets will be also the occasion to make your purchases of local products and to admire our craft industry. Come to taste our products: mushrooms, sausages, cheeses of Auvergne, snails, foie gras, red fruits, Batavia with aperitif and the brioche of Yssingeaux to taste it. In couple or family, you will find a reception personalized in our hotels, lodgings, furnished, rooms of hosts, camp-sites and vacation villages.

An intense life in tence  Tence, station green of medium mountains, kept all its charms of antan, its simplicity, its authenticity. Tence, a village, where one knows the value of the traditions and user-friendliness, where the sport cohabits with a softness of living often forgotten