Topoguide Hiking – Cantal Volcano and St. Flour Pays – GR4, GR400 | FFR (French) Pictures Online

Loops 2 to 8 days in the Natural Park of Auvergne Volcanoes.
With a diameter of about 70 km, the Massif Cantalian is one of the most important in Europe. Pics, mountains and planets took the place of the huge volcano of origins. Slowly eroded, this mountainous region has become a huge pasture of altitude which is covered with flowers in the spring: ancolies, lily, digital, gentians.
Further in the east, perched on its promontory of basalt, St-Flour Guard Through his bishopric and his cathedral the jealous memory of his past prosperity. It is the door that allows access to the flattened vertices and dotted with marger’s granite blocks (loop to go in 6 days), at the Gorges de la Truyère (loop to go in 5 days) and the basaltic plateau of the planet (Broching loop in 4 days).