Château de Messilhac

Built in Carladez from the eleventh century, on a promontory high above the valley of Goul, the borders of Haute Auvergne and Rouergue Messilhac by the improvements made to its central building in the early sixteenth century by Jean de Montamat, his lord , is the only intact remnant of Renaissance architecture in the Cantal, with a carved facade of beauty and a staircase with Italian law.

The castle was at the end of the sixteenth century the seat of the bailiff of the High Auvergne, Captain Captain of Rastinhac, lieutenant general of the king in the region, played an important role in local history, especially during the War of Hundred Years when it was occupied by British troops and during the Wars of Religion. Formed by two large towers, a central body and a wing from the late eighteenth century, Messilhac offers a terrace and the top of its watch towers a superb panorama of the Valley Goul.