Chapelle Sainte-Madeleine de Chalet, Romanesque chapel in Massiac, France.

The Chapelle Sainte-Madeleine de Chalet is a 12th-century Romanesque chapel built a few centimetres from the edge of a basalt spur above the Alagnon valley. Its walls are of irregular light-grey rubble stone with darker quoins, and a broad stone bell gable with one arched opening rises from the steeply pitched roof of flat grey stones. A round-arched opening shelters a dark wooden door, and the nave is barrel-vaulted, separated from the sanctuary by a triumphal arch, with south and north side chapels added in the 13th and 14th centuries.

The structure dates to the 12th century and later received two side chapels built in the 13th and 14th centuries. It received historical monument status in 1982.

The chapel's name comes from Saint Madeleine, honoured here each 22 July with a pilgrimage that ends at a grotto where the saint is said to have lived as a hermit. A legend tells that she and Saint Victor, hermits on facing rocks, spoke of religion without meeting, and that her rosary cord became a bridge between the two crags.

The chapel stands a few centimetres from the edge of a basalt spur above the Alagnon valley; the village of Chalet lies 400 m to the east on the plateau, and the A75 motorway passes 390 m to the south, at the limit of the monument's protection perimeter. Approach on foot with care near the rock edge.

Local folklore tells of two hermits living on opposite cliffs who stayed in touch by stretching a rosary cord between them to form a kind of bridge. This story reflects the isolation that life in this remote location meant for early inhabitants.