Individuals or groups, come to discover the “Burons de Salers”. It is also the story of the Cantal departement. The House of the Salers Cheese and Cow and the House of the Salers Gentian. Tourism medal.
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A country with rigorous winters, agriculture in the Cantal county is characterised by the transhumance of cattle to the high altitude meadows (the “estives”) in summer. On these plateaus, men built the “burons”, the Cantal equivalent to the high mountain pasture chalets in the Alps, to allow cheese making during the summer season. This way of farming gave rise to an exceptional pedigree cow, the Salers. This cow is one of the Cantal mountain emblems along with the gentian harvested from May...