Corner of rue de Belgique and rue Alquié

Napoleon III

Resort architecture

In Vichy, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, dream villas emerged from the earth and from the luxuriant imagination of talented architects. Moorish, Venetian, Flemish, Tunisian: the villas of Vichy are in themselves invitations to travel, to exoticism sometimes, to disorientation always.

The influence of Napoleon III

For those who like to go from street to street

Mythical districts

Celestins district

Some strolls, like those that lead us through the Célestins district, are songs; a few light notes that we thought were meant to pass and that still linger in our minds, like a...

Incredible but true

Houses and villas

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There is an oasis, a secret place, a pocket Cherifian kingdom in the middle of the thermal district, where the heat has no hold. From the outside, nothing distinguishes this...

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Villa Anne Marie

Here nothing seems to have changed for more than a century. A little away from the thermal heart, the villa Anne-Marie is one of the rare Vichy residences that have not...

Resurrections of beautiful villas

Resurrections of beautiful homes

Crossed portraits of 3 neo-Vichy residents whose arrival in Vichy and life project contribute to the preservation of the city’s architectural heritage, and even for some...

Rue Hubert Colombier

Rue Hubert Colombier the quintessence of the Belle Époque

This street lined with houses of all styles (Art Nouveau, eclectic, neo-classical, neo-gothic…) which connects the thermal district to the old Vichy. Formerly a private...

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