Visit puy de dome

Discover the cities to be visited in the department of the puy of dome

Discover the town of vernet la varenne  Henri Pourrat author of “Gaspard of the mountains”, known as of Vernet the Game preserve which it is “the country of the great horizons” and it invites the visitor to engage in” the turfed way as an alley under the trailing branches of the beeches " which “will lead you towards Crete where, of the Cevennes and of the Mouchet Mount to the hills of Bourbonnais you will be able to contemplate 200 kilometers of mountains. Look at them: never you will twice see them, they will be always different, according to hours', according to ciels, to teach you that the world must be perpetual discovered. “ Varied landscapes, a preserved nature… Small valleys timbered at the bottom of which curve of brooks with trouts…

Discover issoire  One would say the south… This valley to the colors ochres and with the meridian accents the way opens towards the south, telling you with the passage the history of the Margot Queen, the castles and the Romance churches.

Discover the town of aigueperse  In the middle of Limagne, our territory offers one from the most beautiful points of view on the Chain of Puys. Come to discover the richness of our inheritance (20 listed monuments, small inheritance) and to taste our specialities: dress and marsipan cakes of Acute.

Discover the town of orcines  Orcines, commune of 3.067 inhabitants (1999) is located on the buttresses of the Chain of Puys, with the interface between the agglomeration clermontoise and the remarkable natural environment which constitutes inter alia, Pariou, Large Suchet, the Pothole, Puy of Goules and Puy de Dôme. The territory is occupied in the west (except for the tops of the Chain of Puys), in the east by wooded spaces and the center by agricultural spaces with vocation. The commune, part integral of the Natural Regional Park of the Volcanos of Auvergne (PRNVA), has a surface of 4.300 ha of which two thirds are registered in classified site. Its altitude varies from 550 m to 1465 m (altitude of Puy de Dôme), the church of the borough is with 830m.

Discover the town of orelle  Orelle, since its origins, was always a small commune of mountain. Gathered in ten hamlets, the villagers lived of agriculture and breeding, of the sale of the wood cuts as well as exploitation of the mines of roofing stone and ore disseminated on the slopes. The community was primarily made up of peasants and craftsmen. The site of the old mills, the forging mills and other tanneries testifies still today to this diversity which made it possible generations of Orellins to work and live with the country without an emigration towards less austere grounds being necessary. Exiguous and sloping space determined the provision of the pieces. The superposition in terraces allowed a saving in space in spite of the retaining walls which one was to raise each year. Orelle was rich in vine and one even said that it is in Orelle that one produced the first wine of France… while coming from Italy!

Discover ceyrat  With the doors of Clermont-Ferrand, with the feet of the chain of Puys, the Communes of SAINT-GENES-CHAMPANELLE and CEYRAT, offer to you an ideal framework for your stays of businesses and holidays. Many leisures are proposed to you: Climbing, excursions, VTT, horsemanship, parapente, exposures, spectacles and traditional festivals… Possibility of renting rooms for your congresses.