Logis Abbatial du Moutier

Eleventh-eighteenth century to THIERS.

From the sixth century it is reported the existence of a monastery at the mouth of the gorge Durolle in 756 Pepin the Short endowed the abbey and appoint its own apocrisiaire Father Joseph, in 1011 it became "Daughter of Cluny" while safeguarding the rank of abbey. In 1251, the abbot placed it under the protection of Alphonse de Poitiers, brother of the King, Lord preserve of Auvergne. Affected in 1701 by a flood of Durolle who took the monastic buildings, it survived until the Revolution.

His last partner was abbot of St. Didier JB, chaplain of the Count of Artois, brother of the King, the Pope suppressed it in 1782. The right to hold "fair and market" remains at the Pre Fair held since the twelfth century against the abbey in September. The home has a fortified arched door flanked by two towers built in 1096, a spiral staircase is the third, the eighteenth, the house was remodeled, this time dates the elegant interior surprising in this medieval building.

The garden, surrounded by Durolle and the Romanesque abbey church, is partitioned into rooms decorated with flowers and topiary.