Tourist attractions Apremont-sur-Allier

In order to create this 4ha park, inspired by 18C English examples, it was necessary to dam a valley for water features, transform a former quarry into a waterfall and meadows into lawns and woods, necessitating bulldozers to plant mature trees weigh..

Scattered with buttresses, pillars, flying buttresses and pinnacles, the building has some lovely portals and a 52-metre-high square tower. Inside, there is a wide nave and a 16C clock. The 12C fresco is on the Romanesque apse with a caul-de four vau..

This beautiful tower with machicolation and corbelled turrets is a ruin from the fortifications of Nevers. It was built in 1393 and today houses the Nivers Archaeological Museum, with its antique and Romanesque sculptures.

This wonderful example of early Renaissance architecture was the home of the dukes of Nevers. Building began in the 15C by Jean de Clamecy, the Count of Nevers, who had tired of the fortress that stood where the town hall now is. The palace was embel..

This chapel was part of a Visitadine convent. The façade is loaded with ornamentation and is in the Italian Baroque style - niches, entablature, columns and pilasters. Built in the time of Louis XIII, by Jean Collignon.

This church was built from 1063 to 1097 on the initiative of the Count of Nevers, Guillaume Ier. It has an elegant chevet and luxurious interiors, thanks to the golden tone of the stone used. A fine example of Romanesque art.

Inaugurated in 1960 and named after Jean Behra (French racing driver who died in 1959), the Nevers-Magny-Cours car/motorcycle circuit has since been the venue of many competitions. The most prestigious of these are the French Formula 1 Grand Prix (si..

The Ligier F1 Museum exhibits cars which marked the history of the Ligier stable also known as the "blue stable". The models are all stamped with the initials JS in memory of Jo Schlesser, who died on the Essarts Circuit (Rouen). Some items..

From the Porte du Croux to the Loire, these remparts were built by Pierre de Courtenay in the 12C and rebuilt in the 15C. You can take a lovely walk along the Quai des Mariniers, giving a view over the Loire bridge.

This museum is housed in the old abbey and must be seen for its collection of Nevers earthenware, grouped according to style - Italian, Persian, Chinese, popular or... Nivernais. The visit ends at a collection of delicate enamels and spun glass, alle..

The law courts are housed in the 18C former bishop's palace near the cathedral.

Those wishing to walk in the footsteps of Bernadette Soubirous need not go to Lourdes. The future saint left her home town in 1866 to enter the Saint-Gildard convent, mother house of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers, where she r..

This is a triumphal arch built in 17746 to commemorate the victory at Fontenoy - verse by Voltaire in praise of Louis XV is engraved on the arch.

Built in 1966 by Claude Parent, founder of modernism in architecture, this church looks like a blockhaus from the outside. Inside, the light on the concave nave gives the building a great sense of space, seemingly inspired by Cistercian churches.