This Remote Region of Central France Has Spectacular Food and Wine—and Even More Spectacular Hiking.

This Remote Region of Central France Has Spectacular Food and Wine—and Even More Spectacular Hiking.

Why the Auvergne region should be your next culinary destination.Manuel Obadia-Wills Climbing the Puy Mary, an extinct volcano in France’s Auvergne region.It was a long way to go for a cheese sandwich. But what a sandwich! True, I’d just climbed the Puy de Sancy—90 minutes of huffing to the top of an extinct volcano—so anything would have tasted good. This was a special one, though: made with the renowned St.-Nectaire, bought outside the town in…