Topoguide from the “Walking & Hiking” Collection.
The Pays de Brioude is located in the northwest of Haute-Loire in the south of Auvergne. A land of art and history known for its Romanesque churches, its thousand-year-old abbeys, its medieval castles, its villages of character labeled "most Coffee table villages in France" (Blesle and Lavaudieu). It is also a land rich in natural heritage: the valleys of the Allier, the Sénouire, the Alagnon, the sensitive natural area of Lorlanges, large expanses of Limagne, the banks of the Allier...