Tournemire

Two families shaped Tournemire: the lords of Tournemire, whose castle stood on the promontory over the Doire valley, and the Anjony, wealthy fur merchants from Aurillac. The Anjony castle, built between the 15th and 17th centuries, is the village's great sight. Around it, on a height above the river, the oldest houses have Romanesque foundations, walls of volcanic stone and roofs of stone slabs.

Highlights

• Château d'Anjony, built from the 15th to the 17th century and open to visitors
• The 12th-century village church
• Old houses of volcanic stone under lauze roofs
• The Volcans d'Auvergne regional nature park, to which the village belongs (FR)

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Tournemire (Cantal) (FR), Tournemire, Cantal, Tournemire (Cantal) (IT)), Wikivoyage (Tournemire). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.