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A geniune paradise for sports enthusiasts, ramblers and families, the Cantal volcano offers year-round weather conditions that are ideal for practicing leisure sports or extreme sports such as hiking with snowshoes, ice-climbing, skiing and its off-shoots, at the biggest resort in the whole massif. With its extensive range of activities that include long-distance hikes on foot, on horseback, or on mountain bike, plus golf and watersports on lakes and rivers during summer, the Aurillac Region offers over 600 kilometres of long-distance hiking trails and some 2,000 kilometres of shorter trails. You can choose between over sixty different sports here.
From traditional rural festival to the international street theatre festival, the Aurillac Region embellishes all its cultural programs with festive cheer. Life in Aurillac pulses to the beat of dance, music, theatre, story telling, exhibitions, books and arts and crafts. Conviviality is another major artform practiced with perfection by people in the Cantal; they have the time for it, as witnessed by the annual 'festival des Européennes du Goût'.
