What to do and see ?
Whatever the season, you will be able to appreciate our egion through various activities.
Hiking, biking, horse riding drom spring to Autumn, red fruits gatherings such as wild strawberries, raspberries, blueberries or mushrooms picking, and in winter snoeshoes hiking, nordic ski and why not a dog sleg ?
| Nature | Culture | Events & festivals | Gastronomy |
Find all the information on the Haute-Loire website : Region of the beautiful and good food !
You will find here natural environment to discover multiple untouched landscapes ; the National School of Bakery (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Pâtisserie) in Yssingeaux, gastronomy world crossroads, is only a few minutes away from our home.
Here are a few of the numerous you can find close to our house :
Nature
Hiking and family walking, out of our door or on large and official footpaths, there is a sound range of tracks to try either with your family or as demanding walkers. You will thus discover the neighbourhood and the Lignon's gorges !
Spring, Summer, Automn or winter : Wild berries picking in the summer, mushrooms in the autumn, and when comes the winter, get your nordic skis !
You
can also visit the large
open markets on Thursdays in Yssingeaux, on Wednesdays in
Retournac…
Get
on your mounts : animal or mecanical, come and visit the
tracks with horses, mountains bikes, quads
; various equestrian farms offer horses and
donkey rides (Yssingeaux, Bas en Basset,
Monastier, Tence)...
Golfs
: 25 and 30 kms away, you can enjoy the 18 hole golf course of le Chambon
sur Lignon and the 9 hole golf course of le Puy
en Velay
Climbing, escalarbre,
accrobranche, via ferrata : if found of dizzy
feelings, come and try one of the numerous ways we have to offer in our
region
Fishing in a very large numbers of
trout rivers and in the ranked Lignon river
Water
sports with swimming pools in Yssingeaux,
Bas en Basset close to Monistrol /
Loire, or the Lavalette barrage
Cultural things to do
- the sucs and the "pays du Meygal",- les villages with thatched roofs, the Beates houses, bread's oven,
- churches and wonderful typical sites such as St-Julien-Chapteuil, St-Pierre-Eynac, Montusclat, Moudeyres, etc.
- the Neyzac, Pertuis and Guerin watermills,
- the "Lac Bleu" and the parc de la Lauzière,
- the Puy-en-Velay and its unique classified heritage,
- the thatched cottages of Bigorre and the St Front's lake,
- the Mont Mezenc,
- the Chambon sur Lignon, and the mount Mouchet museum, famous Resistance sites,
- numerous castles,
- la Chaise Dieu
Events & festivals
Several entertainments and festivities are going on all year long but still some of them need special attention :- at the end of august, the classical music Festival of la Chaise-Dieu
- "The laughing Festival" in Yssingeaux, end of august each year
- mid of september, the medieval festival "king of birds" in le Puy en Velay
Gastronomy
When
it is time to eat, you surely will appeciate local cooking : the green
lentils of the Puy, porc saltings, wild berries…you will enjoy small
surrending restaurants
And some of you can also choose to
go and taste the Auvergne cooking only 25 minutes away at the famous Regis
Marcon restaurant, 3 stars in the Michelin Guide, Vidal in St Julien Chapteuil, les Cedres
bleus (blue cedars) in Aurec, or even Chatelard
in St Bonnet le Froid
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