Along Parks and gardens

Effiat's castle
Effiat
Landscape gardens, drawn by A. Mollet and selected among the most beautiful gardens of France, with ornamental lakes, porches, " nymphed " and its "loose stones" illuminated by optical fibre.
Accessible with the visit of the castle.

Portabéraud's house
Mozac
Beautiful park of the house of the XVIII-th century of Portabéraud said " Mercier Madness ".
Statues in terra-cotta, gates, bower, greenhouse and main courtyard. Free or guided visit.

Randan's royal domain
Randan
Gardens and the park, of a surface of 100 hectares, represent one of the most important landscaped creations of first half of XIX-th century.
They conjugate French, English and Italian influences, immortalizing the tradition of the landscaped garden of XVIII-th century and announce the evolutions of the art of gardens under the Second Empire. Among the buildings, discover great orangery built by 1835 and greenhouses, retorts of those of Versailles today disappeared.