Unique collections in Auvergne of fine arts, photography, sacred art, ethnography, music, contemporary creation: the museum illustrates the artistic diversity of civilizations in Africa and Asia but also in Oceania and America. Every year, temporary exhibitions tell the story of the world of yesterday and today. There is a fun route for families with creative workshops.
La Maison Décoret, has a 1* Michelin restaurant, 5* personalized rooms, a boutique and cellar. It is the most intimate of the Relais & Châteaux establishments in France. The Chef, Best Worker of France, organizes cooking classes. Culinary creations are an invitation to discover the natural splendours of the Auvergne and the “art de vivre” of Vichy, with pairings of dishes, wines and waters, unique in the universe of the high gastronomy.
The Opera Museum, the only one of its kind in the province, preserves and enhances the archives of the Vichy Opera. Each year, it offers a thematic exhibition that recreates the history of the spa’s musical seasons. In 2021, the museum dedicated its exhibition to Camille Saint-Saëns for the centennial of his death.
The surviving remains of the second class spa establishment, built in 1858 by the British architect Charles Badger.
A boulevard of villas showing Vichy’s eclectic side in matters of architecture.
Villas in various styles and with different cultural references.
The place where the Source de l’Hôpital emerges. The spring takes its name from the proximity of a former XVIIIth century hospital.
Neo-medieval style house in which the poet, journalist and reporter Albert Londres (1884-1932) was born.
XVIth century city bailiff’s office, built on the old city walls.
An important trading thoroughfare which saw the rise of a watermen’s guild that was very active in the XVth century.
The marquise, a famous devotee of spa treatments, stayed in Vichy twice, in 1676 and 1677.
The passage Giboin is the most beautiful of the city's many passages. Covered and full of charm, it was built in 1888 on the site of the former garden of the Mombrun hotel.
