La Fournio
Typical Xaintrie house between the Dordogne and the Monts du Cantal, close to the medieval town of Salers. Large inglenook fireplace, back-kitchen, slate roof, well-kept garden enclosed by stone walls. "La suite du journalier" (the day labourer's suite) offers a magnificent view from a small independent house with its own fireplace (single bed), reading area, TV, upstairs: 1 bedroom (double bed) with shower room, separate WC. The "Armoise" room (upstairs) with double bed (160cm), bathroom with bath opening onto the bedroom, separate WC. The "Marronnier - Frêne" room (suite for 3 pers): bedroom...
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A country with rigorous winters, agriculture in the Cantal county is characterised by the transhumance of cattle to the high altitude meadows (the “estives”) in summer. On these plateaus, men built the “burons”, the Cantal equivalent to the high mountain pasture chalets in the Alps, to allow cheese making during the summer season. This way of farming gave rise to an exceptional pedigree cow, the Salers. This cow is one of the Cantal mountain emblems along with the gentian harvested from May to October by the “gençannaïres”. An old miner with a passion for this ancestral way of exploiting the C...
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