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Listed building, perched 900 meters above sea level, this impressive castle of the fifteenth century is open to visitors. Located Orcival, a charming village of Puy de Dome is famous for its basilica, this castle belongs to the famous "Route des Châteaux d'Auvergne."

The castle includes a suite of living room, dining room, guard room, vaulted chapel and have retained much of their antique furniture seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The chapel, in particular, has an altar and an altar of Carrara marble of the sixteenth century, and a remarkable II lying Yves d'Allegre, companion of Bayard and Gaston de Foix fell to the Battle of Ravenna in 1512.

Beautiful French-style parterres have been traced by Le Nôtre. This is where the novelist Paul Bourget is the plot of "Demon of noon."