COUNTRY OF RIOM LIMAGNE

The country of Riom-Limagne placed just a step from Vulcania and of the regional park of the Volcanoes of Auvergne, cultivates the art of the variety and contrasts. It stretches between fertile fields, of green valleys , of sinuous throats then sets of the height. Opens then a sight diving into Limagne, real mosaic in the brilliant colours of grains, of but, of colza and sunflowers, given rhythm by hedges, copses, rows of poplars and of graceful undulations.
According to the season the colour of the sky, the hour of day, as one turns eastward or that one contemplates the rounded off silhouette of the chain of the puys which shells on the horizon its80 volcanoes, panoramas surprise and are has every time a delight!.
An intense volcanic activity has shaped landscape bequeathing to the man indisputable wealth: the water, the stone and this fertile black earth.
It is in this decoration, bristled by dovecotes, that snuggle up castles and bourgeois houses, that churches are raised to the glory of the Roman art, that are outlined cities and villages of character, that the art of the fire and the stone is handled .
Visit! Discover! Cross roads according to urge! On foot, on horseback, on VTT, numerous marked out paths will lead you to the heart of this country, to the discovery of what it has of most authentic.
The fisherman will annoy the trout whereas others will be able to learn about the golf or about the go-carting or try the enjoyments of the bathing.
It is enough to drill the mystery of this country, to become soaked with its culture to discover that it is the country rich in histories and in traditions, the country that can't be told about but which is experienced …

THE EARTH OF VINE GROWER
The ton
Called also chabanne, chibotte or touno, the ton is a typical wine protection of Limagne where the wine grower protects himself from bad weather, rests himself after the cut, takes a snatch and stores his tools. Generally implanted in the middle of the little piece to reduce movements of the wine grower, the ton is of simple invoice: square plan and roof in two pieces. Some are more evolved with a concern of the aesthetics and the addition of architectural elements as girders, corbelled constructions, and ledges. Because of fast communications and for lack of conversation, it tends to disappear.
Artonne
Typical wine grower Village who abounds in numerous characteristic elements of the architecture vine grower. The vineyard became a marginal activity in Artonne, however the municipality wished to highlight this patrimony with a natural site of discovery of the environment of the vineyard: the Hillside of Holy Puy Jean who dominates the village.
Enval
The Envalois vineyard is very ancient. In spite of the appearance of the phyloxéra and the evolution of the tastes of the clientele which begin the slow disappearance of the vineyard, wine activity stays still in 1952, the first economical resource of the municipality. Today, the exploitation of vineyards recovers from a secondary activity with exclusively domestic vocation.
Ménétrol
A wine grower produces of Châteaugay, tasting on meeting.
Saint-Bonnet-Près-Riom
Placed in what is called " the country of Brayaud ", Saint-Bonnet-Près-Riom enjoys a reputation of a wine grower village for centuries. Following a first regrouping of lands in 1972 made on Riom, the first vineyards of the new generation become established. In ten years the surface of vineyards tripled. In 1988, the City of Riom gives on its own grounds with an agreement lease to two wine growers from Saint - Bonnet.