It is between the slopes of the streams of the Vine and the Soudeillette on a rocky escarpment, that was built one of the most important and impregnable castles. The fief of the Ventadours, which stretches from the east of the lower Limousin to the west of the Auvergne, developed a new form of lyrical expression in the 12th century: Troubar art. It became a reference in all the European courts.
