Visit the puy de dome department

Come to discover the tourist cities and places to visit in the department of the puy of dome…

Discover the town of royat chamalières  You will be surprised per as many parks in the middle of the city! Royat-Chamalières knew to cultivate the art of the gardens. Foolish places where quietude and beauty marry invite you to strolls: the Thermal Park - borough of Royat to the thermal district, the Bargoin Park - with the limit of Royat and Chamalières-, the Monjoly Park - around of the town hall of Chamalières-. With two steps of the centre town, traverse Arboretum de Royat with discovered American and European resinous gasolines: Douglas, pines of Oregon, spiced and larches, cyprés of Lawson, will not have any more secrecies for you. Other paths at the beginning of Royat-Chamalières will enable you to join the hamlet of Charade, the heights of Clermont-Ferrand or the puy of Dome. With the liking of these stroll or excursions, it is not rare to meet a rich and various fauna: fox, roe-deer, badger, hare, and more frequently the squirrel russet-red, host of wood and the gardens.

Royat, medieval town  Dominating Clermont-Ferrand in the west, the borough of Royat was built on the cliff of the Valley of Tiretaine. The medieval borough preserves beautiful vestiges of the Romance and Gothic religious architecture: the Saint-Leger church - one of the rare strengthened Romance churches, the old monastery, the Cross of the Apostles. One can also see the remainders of the strengthened enclosure of Royat. Randomly streets and lanes, the civil architecture reveals, in its turn, its houses with the lintels and substructures of Volvic, the cellars of vine growers

The thermal spa in royat chamalières  The thermal spa of Royat-Chamalières has five sources: the source Eugenie (Great in the past Source), the César source, the Saint-Mart source, the Saint-Victor source and the Auraline source. Some are exploited as of the Gallo-Roman time, as the many vestiges discovered at the 19th century attest it. The César source is the first with being localised in 1822. The Védrine abbot puts at the day the Great Source in 1844. Its very high flow makes it possible to consider an exploitation on a large scale. In less than one half-century, the thermal spa acquires all the infrastructure necessary to its correct operation. In the middle of the green valley of Tiretaine, the natural landscape painted by Jean-baptiste Camille Corot in years 1830 is transformed little by little into a place of cure and holiday. A whole luxuriant architecture develops in order to as it should be accomodate the aristocracy and the middle-class of the whole world. In 1862, the visit of Napoleon III and the Eugenie Empress give an official guarantee to the thermal revival of Royat-Chamalières. For the occasion, the Great Source is renamed name of the Empress. The railroad allows the bathers and the tourists to go in great number in the station. Anxious to satisfy demanding customers, the hotel ones invest in a sumptuous architecture since 1865. During the years 1912-1914, the station is the theatre many embellishments. Auguste Rouzaud, owner of the chocolate factory the Marchioness of Sévigné and dealer of the thermal spa of 1901 with its death in 1934, called upon the architect Louis Jarrier to carry them out. In 1938, the Control of water becomes municipal. In spite of the fall of frequentation related to the loss of the colonies, the thermal spa does not have of cease to be modernized. Extensions are built. The year 1998 sees the opening of the institute Sirena, center of re-arrangement proposing a innovating treatment of the cellulitis. 2006 should see the opening of Royatonic, centers thermoludic making it possible each one to benefit from the benefits of thermal spring.