Village of Saint-Just-près-Brioude

Dominated by the Vergueur volcano, one of the youngest in Auvergne, only fifteen thousand years old, the countryside around Saint-Just-près-Brioude offers a wide variety of picturesque landscapes. The gradient is significant: on a pass of 500 m at the Combette bridge over the Courgoux to 900 m in the village of Osfond, or 400 m of vertical drop.
Four streams, all tributaries of the Allier, irrigate the town, the two most important of which are the "Céroux" which has its source in Cantal and drains half of the town and the "Courgoux", smaller, circulates from Artiges in Lodines.
Several Gallo-Roman sites are listed on the territory of the town. The first known writings show the name of St-Just in the 10th century; Gabriel Fournier in his work “Le Peuplement en Basse Auvergne” located at that time at St Just as the capital of the “Parish”. Before bearing its current name, St Just had several successive appellations in the Middle Ages: St Just les Brioude and St Just sur Brioude, then under the St Just l'Egalité revolution.
The village nestled in the hollow of the Céroux valley has recently been redeveloped and embellished; the houses are grouped around the 12th century Romanesque church, built with stones from the volcano, restored in 1980 and dedicated to St Just, patron of the town.

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• Free parking