Bessay-sur-Allier

Listed building, the Saint Martin church dating from the eleventh and twelfth centuries was built by the Benedictines. It reveals a typical architecture of the region, including a tower with bundles of columns. Inside, it is possible to admire a polychrome and gilded wooden statue of St. Martin of the eighteenth century and the baptismal font of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries with stone heads.

Walking through the rest of the town, you can admire the castle of Chaugy, private property listed historical monuments or the castle of Paray. Set on a feudal mound, the fortified house of the thirteenth century was transformed into a castle in the course of the seventeenth. The facade and two square turrets and dormers carved stones in two-tone brick diamonds. Inside, the building has a fireplace in the image of Ceres and Bacchus, and incredible French ceilings.

Bessay-sur-Allier also reveals his visitors home Neuglise wood-framed, building of the seventeenth century listed in the inventory of historical monuments in the Allier, Petit Bessonnat, a house from the second half of the nineteenth century, or the castle Moutier. The original building of the fifteenth century, there is still turrets, courtyard walls, two pavilions or a classified portal stone.

Lovers of outdoor walks and nature enthusiasts to wander the heart of the National Nature Reserve of the Allier valley.

The market is held every Wednesday morning.

In early July, the main festival site with its petanque competitions, his ball, his torchlight, concerts or the fireworks.

In late July, the bessaytois Clogs organize their feast of potato with a rally, hiking, a contest pâté potatoes or a potato collection activity.