St Leonard de Noblat, France Tourism

St-Léonard-de-Noblat (pop. 5,300) is a charming little town with picturesque old houses (13th-16th C.), the birthplace of the physicist Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), who discovered the law of volumes. The town, situated on a hill, was a staging-point on the medieval pilgrims' route to Santiago de Compostela, and has a beautiful Romanesque church (11th