Tarte à la Bouillie – Dessert Auvergnat
Recipe for Tarte à la Bouillie, a traditional Auvergne dessert, a sweet milk-based custard cream baked in the oven on a short crust or puff pastry base
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Bugnes – Fritters Recipe – Mardi Gras
Recipe for French Bugnes, the fritters traditionnally prepared on Mardi Gras with all the leftovers of fat that couldn’t be consumed during Lent
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Billom – Medieval town – Toscane Auvergnate
Billom, a medieval town located by the Limagne Plain and at the foothills of the Livradois Mounts, an area of green valleys known as ‘Tuscan Auvergne’
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Clafoutis – Auvergne dessert’s recipe
Clafoutis, a traditional dessert from Limousin and Auvergne regions in Central France, made with black cherries baked in a custard style batter
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Pompe aux Pommes – Auvergne’s dessert
The Pompe aux Pommes is a large apple turnover that is traditionally baked in Auvergne, a mountainous region in Central France
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Vulcania in Auvergne
Vulcania, an educational and recreational park on volcanism, inaugurated in 2002 in the heart of the extinct volcanoes of the Chaîne des Puys in Auvergne
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Montpeyroux, a Beautiful French Village
Montpeyroux, a picturesque walled village once the property of the prestigious Comtes d’Auvergne, now ranked among the most beautiful French villages
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Charroux en Bourbonnais, a Beautiful Village
Charroux en Bourbonnais, an influential medieval stronghold and thriving place of commercial exchanges today ranked among the Plus Beaux Villages de France
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Gergovie – Vercingetorix versus Julius Caesar
Gergovie in Auvergne, the site of the battle where Vercingetorix, the leader of the Gallic rebellion defeated Julius Caesar’s Roman legionaries in 52BC
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Thiers – French Capital of cutlery
Thiers in Monts du Forez in Auvergne, the French capital of cutlery and a picturesque medieval town clinging on the cliff above the turbulent Durolle River
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Château de Billy in Bourbonnais
Château de Billy in the department of Allier in Auvergne, a fortress once belonging to the Duchy of Bourbon and superb illustration of military architecture
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Our Lady of Monton in Puy-de-Dôme
Our Lady of Monton, the monumental statue of the Virgin Mary built in order to redeem the atrocities of the French Revolution stands next to a WWI German gun
