Location

St Alyre d'Arlanc is a small village, set in a sheltered valley at an altitude of 860 metres. It's surrounded by tiny hamlets interspersed with pine and birch forests. The whole region is a place of outstanding natural beauty.
It lies almost at the heart of the Livradois-Forez nature park, a quarter of a million acres of the Massif Central range of extinct volcanic mountains, that cut across the middle of France. Here lies the province known as Auvergne, one of the most romantic regions of France.
The nearest cities are Clermont-Ferrand, St Etienne, Lyon, Thiers and Vichy and there are many smaller towns such as Arlanc, Ambert, Brioude, Issoire and Le Puy en Velay within a 15-40 minute drive.