Tournemire

Formerly, the rival houses of Tournemire and Anjony disputed supremacy by iron and blood. The struggle ceased at the dawn of the seventeenth century with the defeat of the lords of Tournemire, whose castle is now only ruins. The Anjony castle, on the other hand, survives and is not only one of the finest jewels of Auvergne medieval architecture, but also one of the best preserved. Built in the mid-fifteenth century by Louis II d'Anjony and holding superb sixteenth-century frescoes inside, it is a massive, austere building made of four round towers enclosing a square keep. Next to the castle, the village with slate or lauze roofs has as its main interest its little Romanesque church built of polychrome volcanic tufa.

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