About Le Mont-Dore

The town of Le Mont Dore lies in a Natural Park. Look up at the jagged top of Puy de Sancy. This mountain is one thousand eight hundred eighty six meters high and is the highest mountain in Central France. This huge mountain is made of basalt and is now an extinct volcano. Le Mont Dore is located on the right bank of the Dordogne River and has been a popular tourist site since the days of the Romans. The Romans built hot baths and the town park still has a collection of these original baths. Le Mont Dore is famous for the thermal springs that can be found here. They are open from June to September each year. The thermal springs are good for the health and many believe that the springs can cure tuberculosis, bronchitis and asthma. Le Mont Dore is thirty six square kilometers and has a population of fifteen hundred. There is a train from Clermont located about fifty kilometers away. The trip will be much easier if you leave your skis home and rent from one of the ski hire shops located here.

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Try your luck at the casino in town. It has thirty five gaming machines and one table. Visit the Mont Dore Church and have a drink in the 1940's style Cafe de Paris on Jean Moulin Street. Enjoy all the activities that make Le Mont Dore so popular.

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Le Mont Dore is famous for the ski slopes that go down Puy de Sancy. The slopes are steep and the westerly winds are strong. The Le Mont Dore ski hire shops will provide the correct equipment required to ski down this windy slope. There are two ski hire shops in Le Mont Dore that can provide skis, snowboards, snowshoes and helmets. Other outdoor sports offered are paragliding, ice skating, horseback riding and even ice fishing. Warm up in the bowling alley or cinema.
The summers are ideal for walking and hiking through the mountains and fir woods. There are rivers, streams, lakes and waterfalls to enjoy. Swing through the trees in a hundred year old forest. This adventure has eight courses from easy to extreme. Take a ski lift up the mountain and come down in a specially adapted go kart. Try mountain climbing. If you forgot your helmet the ski hire shop will provide you with one along with any thing else you might need.