Discovery of the surroundings
For unique panoramas between 10 and 20 minutes drive:
Ruins of Roche en Régnier
Costaros Rock in Chamalières sur Loire
Mont Gerbizon in Chamalières sur Loire
Le Chier Blanc in Rosières
Blanlhac water mills in Rosières
Ruins of Artias Castle in Retournac
Bourianne Coulee in Saint Julien d’Ance
Glavenas chapel and Pinard water mill in Saint Julien du Pinet
Do not miss :
- Les Ravins de Corboeuf at Rosières
- Chalencon medieval fortress and Devil’s Bridge
- Le Puy-en-Velay
With the family:
- Suc de Ceneuil interpretive trail, Cheyrac island
- Himalayan footbridge of the Lignon Gorges
Further afield:
- allow between 40 minutes and 1 hour drive to these destinations.
- Himalayan footbridge from the Lignon gorges to Grazac or Saint-Maurice de Lignon Beaume
- waterfall in Solignac sur Loire
- Boucher Lake in Cayres
- Chibottes de Vals
- Mont-Barre peat bog in Allègre
- Cave dwelling of Couteaux in Lantriac
- Village of thatched roof houses: Moudeyres & Bigorre
With the family:
- Blue Lake in Champclause
For the more sporty:
- Via ferrata from Juscles to Pertuis and St-Jean-Lachalm
- Costaros & Retournac climbing rock
- Hiking plans and mountain bike and road circuits on request
- Adventure course in Chambon sur Lignon & St-Paulien
And the castles:
- Lavoûte-Polignac in Lavoûte sur Loire
- La Rochelambert in Saint-Paulien
- Rochebaron in Bas en Basset (bird of prey shows)
- Fortress of Polignac in Polignac
Forest walks:
- Mount Gerbizon The Meygal Miaune Forest
With the family:
- La pinatelle du zouave between Polignac and Sansac We provide you with all the detailed brochures. Do not hesitate to ask us. Find hiking plans on the Rando Haute Loire app.
Weekly markets
- Sunday: Vorey
- Tuesday evening: small farmers’ market in Chamalières
- Wednesday: Retournac & Vorey in the evening: local producers’ market (July & August)
- Thursday: Yssingeaux (very big market)
- Saturday: Rosières, Le Puy-en-Velay & Craponne
Holidays and festivals
- Saint Jacques Nights (July) click here
- Craponne-sur-Arzon country music festival (last weekend of July), click here.
- ChaiseDieu sacred music festival (from mid-August to September), click here.
- Les musicales du Puy en Velay, Latin music festival (2nd week of July)
- Rock and music festival in Emblavez de St-Etienne-Lardeyrol (July)
- Nights of dreams, open-air theater festival in Blanhac, Rosières (mid-July)
- Velay theater festival at Arlempdes castle (last week of July)
- Renaissance Festivals of the King of the Bird throughout the town of Puy en Velay (3rd weekend of September), www.roideloiseau.com
