Espirat the origin of the name comes from the Latin Spiracum, is at the heart of the Limagne.
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, village communities organize their own defense and build fortifications in the village center. The highlight comes in the form of an enclosure (composed of a core of boxes crowded) square, flanked at its northeast corner of a thirteenth-century tower and houses in its center a church attested in 1124 and whose the oldest elements are type novel.
The dungeon is a rare example of a stronghold dungeon preserved in the region, with those of Montpeyroux and La Sauvetat. The book is presented as a cylindrical tower whose base is several meters above the ground. A drawbridge or a mobile gallery gave access to the floor. The dungeon is uncrowned and shaved up to the second floor in the nineteenth century.
The creek "The Jauron 'fed the moats that were round the fortification.
In the fifteenth century, a fortified house was built to defend the only access to the northeast corner.
peace returned, the fort lost its defensive role, and the boxes are then appointed by the cellar wineries and more generally for farming.
Today Espirat is best known for the pink garlic, product can be found in the old dungeon.
