Tourism in maurs

The domain of the Mill of Fau is a relaxing place with picnic areas and a pond where it is possible to fish (Day fishing license is compulsory).

The abbey-church of Saint-Cezaire, an unusually large gothic building dating from the 14th century, that once was the Benedictines abbey (founded by the monks of Saint-Geraud abbey in Aurillac and stopped in 1780). A must see: The reliquary Saint-Cesaire bust, a master piece in silversmith's art dating from the 12th century, one of a gem in Romanesque art as well as a unique collection of very beautiful wooden statues unique in the Auvergne region and dating from the 15th and 16th century.

Castle Naucase composed of a dwelling whose construction has been the subject of several campaigns: original keep the twelfth or thirteenth century to the fifteenth enlarged by the addition of a mansion with round towers and then, in 1637, a house for moving from the high court in the backyard. The barn has stables of 1663 unique vaulting systems, long arch of the stable paired continuous barrel and pierced straight glasses, window jambs gunboat segmental vaulted or dome, vertical blind fever drilled in the roof and lined with curbstones at the barn.

The earliest manifestations graphics back about 50,000 years. But this is 5300 years since the man fix to track of signs, extend his thought and speech and communicate permanently with his fellows.
 
The invention of writing is at once an intellectual, a political gesture, a part of society. The stakes are huge: writing can have a privileged relationship with the gods and to structure the knowledge of the world, it promotes the mastery of power, knowledge transfer, exchange of goods. More recently, men have benefited from the writing to learn, express their opinions or even their feelings.
 
The Museum of World Scriptures leads not only to the visitor in Champollion, but he also gives the key to register itself in this great adventure and to consider the place of writing in society of tomorrow.