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Extract from the Orcival Travel Guides:
Twenty-seven kilometres southwest of Clermont and about 20km north of Le Mont-Dore, lush pastures and green hills punctuated by the abrupt eruptions of the
puys
enclose the village of
ORCIVAL
, the home town of ex-President Valry Giscard d'Estaing. A pretty, well-visited, little place, founded by the monks of La Chaise-Dieu in the twelfth century, it makes a suitable base for hiking in the region.
Orcival is dominated by the stunning Romanesque
church of Notre-Dame
, built of the same dark-grey volcanic stone as the cathedral in Clermont and topped with a spire and fanned with ti...
read the whole Orcival Travel Guides...
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