To discover the CANTAL in Auvergne, it is to penetrate in a universe of forms and great worked spaces million years ago by the erosion of the largest volcano of Europe now dormant. The relief in turn rounded or escarped, the vast plates where the herds of cows Salers and Aubrac feed, as many delivers to the first glance stories as of seizing contrasts.
The astonished visitor discovers with the turning of the many footpaths the harmony of a ground of adventure. Water omnipresent, is equipped here in a different way: water running and leaping of the torrent, alleviated water of the lake and the stopping, mysterious water of the river and the brook which murmurs under the willow, secret water of the major sources in charge of life, water of well-being of the thermal springs born from a volcanic activity always present.
Climbing on ice in the Great National Site of Puy Mary, descent in the duster of Super-Lioran, only station where one can fit his skis as of the exit from the train, pedestrian excursions on the many marked out ways of the department, bicycle touring, Vélorail, pleasure of fishing, activities nautical and water running sports, as many varied activities which make say to the tourists, like Jules Renard, who "if the paradise is not on ground, but there are of them certainly pieces some share".
Rich person of imposing natural landscapes, a fauna and an exceptional flora, the CANTAL is also of an inheritance cultural and architectural which testifies, that here like elsewhere, the history left traces. Less famous certainly, but more attaching, more hidden, more close friends, with the dimension of a modest country. It is the humble vault drawn up on the hill, the cross of granite carved with the hollow of the way, the "déambulatoire" and the bell-tower with comb of the Romance church, the medieval castle revealed with the turning of the road, the stone bridge which jumps to the top of the brook, the iron viaduct which spans Truyère with Garabit. It is Salers and its ramparts, Heat-Acute and its Source of By with 82°C, natural curiosities, the rich person religious inheritance, the astonishing statuary, the atypical castles, the old houses of character...
There are some men also who marked the history, each one with his manner: Gerbert the Pope of the Year Millet, Doumer and Pompidou which chaired the Republic, Milhaud and Destaing, Generals of the Revolution and the Empire, Duclaux and Mondor, doctors famous, without forgetting the poets Ajalbert, Vermenouze, Delhostal, Gandillon Gendarme, and the sportsmen Marie Marvingt and Antonin Magne.La discovered of the CANTAL combines authenticates it with the emotion. More than one department, it is a secrecy.
Like Auvergne, the CANTAL is a vast cheese plate. Among them, five cheeses AOC: the Cantal, Salers, St Nectary, the Blue of Auvergne, the Fourme of Ambert, born from a single soil and a technique of manufacture ancestrale. And the lens of Planèze, the Sweet chestnut, an aperitif with the gentian * of Cézallier or of Aubrac, wine glass of Fel *, simple products of the farm, the black trout of the torrent, the boletus or girolle, red fruits of wild nature, and you will have the base of the gastronomy "cantalienne"and its typical dishes: truffade, aligot, pounti, tripou, stuffed cabbage, potée auvergnate, tart with the tome cheese... the receipt is with the range of no matter whom and appears in the back of the postcards. It misses there only the inimitable know-how of the landlord, the fire in the chimney, the rustic wood table, the decoration, the environment and the user-friendliness, these small things which however make all the difference. The "cantalienne" also cooks with the heart.
International of Theatre of Street of Aurillac, today universally known Festival, until the smallest village animation, while passing by the caster of the casino, the CANTAL can also distract. From night like day and throughout the year, it innovates, exposes, animates, with the liking of the historical reconstitution, the meeting of territory, the product of country, the gastronomy, the traditional folklore, the classical music or modern, of the everyday life, the sport, the raid and the adventure .Le CANTAL is connected. No the example to be given you, the list is well too long but enter the office of tourism will have a pleasure of offering the detailed menu to you... With precedes the smile accommodating of the hostess.
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Cantal
