	Mai Juin Septembre	Juillet Août	Octobre
Visites guidées	De 14h à 17h30	De 10h à 11h30 De 15h à 18h30	De 14h à 16h30
Mines	Dimanches et jours fériés	Tous les jours	Dimanches et jours fériés
Moulin	Tous les jours sauf le lundi	Tous les jours sauf le lundi
Parc éolien	Dimanches et jours fériés	Dimanches et jours fériés

Rodde mine - Guided tours - 1h
Equipped as real ones and in company of a geologist, trace back the XIXth century miners who came to extract antimony and silver-bearing lead. Your time travel will transport you back to 2000 years ago!
Can you smell it ? …walk forwards slowly in the dark circuit through 200 m of totally safe galeries. Do feel the mine atmosphere and remind you the tough labour of our ancestors in a priviledged site.
On course of the circuit, you will be guides by the enthusiast's explanations who will tell you about the minerals in their geological background.

Visits :

De mai à septembre de 14h à 17h30 les week-ends et jours fériés. Sur rendez-vous en semaine.
Juillet et août : de 10h à11h30 et de 15h à18h30 tous les jours.
Octobre : de 14h à 17h30 les week-ends et jours fériés.

Pargeat Windmill - Guided tours - 3/4h
Among 10 windmills which could be found in Ally during the XIXth century, 7 have survived. A unique concentration of mills in France.
Presently, 5 are being restored and will be settled to welcome you according to their own style : 2 moulins-gîtes, 1scenic mill, 1 wordmill and Pargeat mill , a genuine « living-mill », an ecomuseum which is now opening its doors :
Much more than a simple tour, it stands as a à la carte welcome plus far fetched comments … such an occasion to spend a clever time. Discover the whole ingenuity of its wooden mechanism dating from 1817, as well as its miller's real task , genuine winds tamer.

Visits :

mai, juin, septembre :
de 14h à 17h30 tous les jours
Juillet, août : de 10h à 1h30 et de 15h à 18h30 tous les jours
Octobre : de 14h à 16h30 tous les jours.
Pour les groupes toute l’année sur rendez-vous :
Tél : 04.71.76.77.22 Fax : 04.71.76.78.03 - visite.ally@free.fr.

Ally-Mercoeur WINDPOWER PARK
« Ally,from ancient mills… to modern windmills. »
Here, the men have always succeeded in adapting themselves and in getting benefit from natural resources around them : earth, water and wind. The installation of 26 windmills
( 85m high mast) 1.5 MW each.

Palaeontology Museum at Chilhac
Exhibition of vertebrate fossils remains (elephants, mastodons, rhinocerus, cervidae, bears, tigers…) dating 1 900 000 years ago as well as worked pebbles which tend to prove hominid's early presence. A 20 minutes diaporama traces back the site history, the work on the spot and in the laboratory.

Opening hours :
From Easter week-end to 30th june and from1st september to 1st november :
On Sundays and public holidays from 15h to 19 h.
From 1st july to 31st august every day from 10h to 12h and from 15h to 19h.
All year round, on appointment for groups : Tel/Fax : 04.71.77.41.71 ou 04.71.77.47.26.
Juillet août tous les jours de 10h à 12h et de 15h à 19h

Haut-Allier Birds House at Lavoûte-Chilhac
Welcome Site for the Birds Protection League. Numerous new exhibitions with a faithful re-forming of forty prestigious species living in the middle of frescoes and a setting representing Allier gorges. A fim showed on a large screen in a gallery will allow you to discover these birds in a natural background. A LPO host proposes 3 ou 4 excursions « nature » each week (summer time). Excursions are planned as well in spring and in autumn.

Opening hours :
July and august from 14h30 to 18h30 closed on saturday all day
Tel : 04.71.77.43.52
E.mail : lpo-auvergne.43@wanadoo.fr - Site : www.lpo-auvergne.org

Haut-Allier Maze at Lavoûte-Chilhac
Come and get lost in a corn maze where only the right answers can guide you towards the treasure.
Open from 1st july to 31st august from 14 h to 19h + on saturday at 21h30.

Destination Volcanoes
Haute-Loire Volcanoes discovery on board an all terrain vehicle in a guide's company,
information and booking : 06.87.31.90.46

Churches guided tours
The architecture of certain typical churches and steeples attract the visitor and and contain : mural paintings, statues
( entombment, triptych, piéta, cruxified Christ…).
For the visits : - « Pays d’art et d’histoire » : Tél : 04.71.77.28.30.
- Lavoûte-Chilhac Presbytery : Tél : 04.71.77.41.86.

Protective Museum for the Ribeyre vines
On appointment for groups: 04.71.74.70.82

Curiosities - Sites
- Association "Les Amis de Saint-Ilpize" monsite.wanadoo.fr/lesamisdesaintilpize
· Benedictine priory, XIth century humpback bridge at Lavoûte-Chilhac.
· Pié rouge volcano at Blassac, du Pié du Roy at Cerzat.
· Saint-Ilpize fortress remains which was erected on a giant basalt platform towering the river Allier.
· Lava flows (orgues at Chilhac ; Blot cliffs).
· Scenic views on Bois , Soulhac, Chilhac villages.
· Combeneyre forests with its cervidae.
· Assembly houses, old baker's ovens , and numerous crosses.
· Ally Mercoeur rearing plateau.
· Allier, Cronce, l’Arçon valleys.
· Various sites illuminations…