aurillac

Discover the thousand-year-old city of Aurillac, its warm colours, its side streets and superb inner courts. Aurillac sits at the centre of a magnificent region: the valley of the Jordanne, the Ouy Mary, the Cantalian Châtaignerai...
Aurillac is celebration, with its famous international street-theatre festival. Things to see, things to do: The Volcano Museum, the Art and Archaeology Museum, the Arboretum, playing golf, hiking around Volcano Park, fishing, or listening to the troat of the stag... trying our traditional dishes... but not moderately.

THE ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM

Museum installed in a former convent of Visitation Nuns. It is devoted to the history of the Cantal, with a reconstruction of a Cantalian interior, as well as the art collections, with permanent exhibitions of paintings and sculptures from the XVIIth to the early XXth Centuries, and contemporary photographs from around the world.

SAINT ETIENNE CASTLE

Saint Étienne de Géraud was born in the mid-IXth Century, in the castle. Great-grandson of Charlemagne, cousin to the King, he became Count of Aurillac on his father’s death. He founded the town of Aurillac and a Benedictine abbey. He was buried in his abbey, which became a pilgrimage shrine on the road to Santiago de Compostela.
The most famous student of this abbey was Gerbert, whose story you will learn along the way. Today, the Castle is home to the Volcano Museum and to the Permanent Centre for Environmental Initiatives.

MUSEUM OF AGRICULTURAL AND FARM LIFE

Come to the ends of the Carladès and discover this land’s numerous riches, from the natural phenomena that shaped its landscape to the know-how of its artisans. You are invited to enter the universe of yesterday’s crafts.

VOLCANO MUSEUM

The Saint Étienne Castle hosts the Volcano Museum, centre of a science pole focused on volcanism, geology and ecology. Naturally, the Aurillac museum deals largely with all issues related to volcanoes: the Auvergne’s volcanoes, located within hiking distance, made this an obvious centre of attention. But the museum goes further, by venturing into less-known venues, those indicated by current research on the "Earth machine". Mechanisms born at the dawn of time, both complex and fascinating.


Aurillac tourist information centre
7 rue des Carmes – 15 000 Aurillac
Tel: +33 (0)4 71 48 46 58
Website: www.iaurillac.com
Email: courrier@iaurillac.com

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