heritage

ROCHER A CUPULES

Droiturier

Rocks which have pits whose use remains indeterminate: religious or medicinal.

It is found near the cemetery, at the "Rô du Peu", and outside the village at Montgenest.

PONT ROMAIN

Droiturier

From the Gallo-Roman period, doubled in the Middle Ages, this bridge is located in the middle of the forest on the ancient Roman road of Paris-Lyon.

PONT DE LA VALLÉE (1752-1758)

Droiturier

This bridge was built on the Andan, and established in deviation from the ancient way of the Roman bridge.

SOURCE MANDRIN (XVIIIe)

Le Breuil

The Mandrin fountain is a well covered with a capital of the seventeenth. The water flows into an oval basin that used to serve as a drinking trough.

The name of this fountain comes from the famous smuggler Louis Mandrin who, on December 22, 1754, stopped with his men in an inn du Breuil.

PARC FLORAL

Lapalisse

Around a kiosk, through the rays of the alleys, the floral park consists of a garden in the French style of an English garden.

There are over 95 different species and a collection of peonies.

A discovery tour of the remarkable trees is available at the tourist office

BUTTE DE MALAKOFF

Saint Etienne de Vicq

Butte raised to the glory of the soldiers of the army of the East after the fall of the fort of Malakoff and the capture of Sebastopol during the Crimean War.

FONTAINE SAINT PIERRE

Saint Pierre Laval

In the fourth, St Martin, discovers a source with the power to heal, beside a menhir representing Ana, the creative divinity.

CROIX GATHELIERE

Saint Pierre Laval

Gathelière marked the frontier of two countries, to the north that of customary law (langue d'oil), to the south that of written law (langue d'oc). This cross materialized this separation.