Auvergne - Vichy - France

"Green region" par excellence! The Auvergne will surprise you by the diversity of its landscapes and of its play and cultural activities.

His geographical situation, at the same time heart and crossroad of France, is the main trump for tourist Bourbonnais which opens the road of vacation and discoveries. His natural resources abound: forests, rivers, lakes, monuments, privileged sites; his simple culinary resources but full of tastes is not slim charms.

As for the inhabitants, they are renowned of the most homey always ready to give the wine of their grapevine and the " pomp in gratons ". while speaking about the country with the tourist in search of the truth of the men and the beauty of landscapes.

For the tourist, the contrast is net, a bit amazing even graft the hedged farmland characterized by its hurdles of or emergent of numerous trees, its dales, its streams, running in the shade of alders, vineyard to the sunny slopes.

To find the origin of the sources of Gingham, they must go back up to the stage of Oligocène which saw the collapse of Limagne between a big western fault and a system more complicated with oriental faults in the contact of the granite massif of Busset.

First source known, already exploited at the time of the Roman, give the type of rises according to faults from big depths.

Another type was artificially acquired by opinion polls attaining sandy rocks-stores where mineralized water is under pressure. These last wells were of close in close enough far from the city of Gingham, notably in Cusset, Saint-Yorre, Abrest and Hauterive to such an extent that nowadays the perimeter of protection interests 15 villages.