Boussac: Where the Lady and the Unicorn Was Found, and George Sand's Stones

Required Activities

• Go up to the second-floor room George Sand used at Boussac, where she wrote Journal d'un voyageur pendant la guerre while sheltering there in 1870, and on the way through the exhibition rooms pick out the 20th-century Aubusson tapestries by Jean Lurçat, Jean Picart Le Doux and Dom Robert against the 17th-century ones

• Walk in among the granite blocks on the summit of Mont Barlot at 591 m and decide for yourself which side you are on — Barailon claimed Gaulish druids carved them and George Sand wrote them up as cyclopean temples, while Prosper Mérimée and Pierre de Cessac argued they are frost-weathered granite and nothing more

• Climb the observation tower on the Rochers de Brudalis at Toulx-Sainte-Croix, 655 m and the high point of the range, and use the orientation table at the top to pick out the Monts d'Auvergne, the plateaux of the Berry and the Limousin hills in one turn

• At the Romanesque church of Toulx-Sainte-Croix, find the bell tower standing separate from the body of the church and the Merovingian stone sarcophagi kept in its lower room