The remarkable Modern Art museum - with more than 15 works! Dominated by the silhouette of a pit-head frame and surrounded by two slag heaps, the mine museum, on the site of Couriot mine shaft, takes visitors on a tour of a former mine through places such as the miners' changing room, the lamp room, underground galleries, the extraction room and power room. Every other year in November is held the International Design Biennale, an event dedicated to the world of design and related professions.
Walkers will love the peaceful and unspoiled nature surrounding the town, particularly the nearby Loire gorges and Pilat mountain area. The second largest city in terms of population, it is about sixty kilometers from Lyon and fifty kilometers from Vienna.
Dangerously ravaged by the wars of Religion, the commune will have to wait until the sixteenth century to know a renewal, notably through the metallurgical industry.
But it was its mining from the eighteenth century, and until the twentieth century, which made the reputation of the city in the rest of the country. Always on top, she continues to make the commune radiate.
Founded in the first half of the 20th century, St. Charles Cathedral unveils an interesting primitive neo-gothic style that extends over 80 meters in length. Inside, one can admire furniture of Art Deco style, as well as all the talent of the silk and ribbon of the time. Many other religious buildings of the city have been classified or registered with the Historic Monuments, like the Great Church of the fifteenth century. In the Gothic style of Forze, it is made of coal sandstone and unveils a very beautiful flamboyant Gothic choir.
