Landeyrat: La Roche de Landeyrat and Vélorail du Cézallier

A particularly tangible way to discover Landeyrat is at La Roche de Landeyrat: The nature trail there explains the site's fauna, flora and geological characteristics using information panels.

When choosing a holiday apartment in Landeyrat, travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions can be considered separately on the respective listing page. Depending on your own plans, these three details can be given different levels of importance, keeping the accommodation decision open. Different combinations of the details also remain comparable, without a single requirement having to determine the entire stay. Nature, active pursuits, water-related and historical focuses can therefore be considered alongside one another; their order remains open and does not need to be combined into a single daily itinerary or uniform travel plan.

Nature

La Roche de Landeyrat is a basalt organ-pipe rock cliff overlooking a large jumble of rocks in the Cézallier's pastureland. The scree slope at La Roche de Landeyrat is protected under France's national policy for the protection of sites and landscapes. The rock cliff provides a refuge for numerous birds and bats.

The different types of activities give you the opportunity to assign separate importance to nature observation, exercise, water and history: These focuses do not have to coincide in a single day's itinerary.

Culture and experiences

The former Landeyrat railway station was converted into the Vélorail du Cézallier tourist leisure facility. The Vélorail du Cézallier starts at Landeyrat station on a former railway line. The facility offers classic and electric rail bikes and is suitable for the whole family. For decades, the transhumance railway at Landeyrat station transported livestock to the high pastures. Historically, the autumn return of the herds to Landeyrat station was associated with large cheese wheels made during the season in the Cézallier's burons.

You can structure your stay according to different interests: The nature trail and the rock cliff represent nature and geology, the Vélorail represents exercise, the Cascade des Veyrines represents water, and the archaeological and historical sites represent culture. This kind of thematic selection allows for different rhythms without prescribing a fixed order.

Other places

Other places: Saint-Mamet-La-Salvetat, Sansac-Veinazès, Le Falgoux, Lavigerie, Marmanhac, Auzers, Mourjou and Saint-Étienne-Cantalès.

Places to visit

At the Cascade des Veyrines, visitors can picnic, wade in the water and fish. The Montagne de Rocherousse mountain is located in the immediate vicinity of Landeyrat. The Roche Grande mountain, the Montagne des Huides mountain and the Puy de Mathonière mountain are also located around Landeyrat. The ruins of Abbaye de Feniers and the Château d'Apchon and Château de la Cheyrelle castles are also located around Landeyrat. The Château de Massebeau is located in the wider regional surroundings of Landeyrat. The Veyrines archaeological site is a Gallo-Roman sanctuary dating from 52 BC to AD 476.

To the higher-level travel overview: Cantal.