Visit to the Usson-en-Forez Museum
Located at the crossroads of three provinces — the Forez, the Velay and the Auvergne — Usson-en-Forez brings together agriculture, industry, crafts and trade.
Following the paths of memory, we come across many traces of its history. A land of Roman heritage (the Bolène road or Caesar’s road), Usson-en-Forez was often a place of conflict.
The memory of those years evokes feudalism, with the commune’s territory shared between the Forez and the Auvergne, and many signs bear witness to the influence of the church.
Certain traces of folklore reveal that Occitania is not far away. The present still trembles with the tumult of the past …
im multitudine hominum, quam tranquillis in rebus diutius rexit, ex agrestibus habitaculis urbes construxit multis opibus firmas et viribus, quarum ad praesens pleraeque licet Graecis nominibus appellentur, quae isde
