Salers

This small town gave its name to a breed of cattle and to an AOC cheese, and it is still surrounded by grassland. It grew up around a castle on a basalt plateau about 900 metres up, above the Maronne valley on the western edge of the Cantal volcanoes. Renaissance houses in the Haute-Auvergne style frame its squares, and two gates survive from the medieval walls.

Highlights

• Salers cheese, made from the milk of the local pastures (FR)
• Place Tyssandier-d'Escous, ringed by Renaissance houses
• Église Saint-Mathieu: 17th-century tapestries and a painted Entombment of 1495
• The 15th-century belfry gate and the Porte de la Martille, last of the walls
• Maison du Commandeur, a Renaissance house holding the museum of local history

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.