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Auvergne terrain map. Auvergne is known for its mountain ranges and dormant volcanoes. Together the Monts Dore and the Chaîne des Puys include 80 volcanoes. The Puy de Dôme is the highest volcano in the region, with an altitude of 1,465 metres (4,806 ft).
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Thiers ( French pronunciation: [tjɛːʁ] ⓘ ; Auvergnat : Tièrn ) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department of Auvergne in central France . [ 3 ]
Auvergne was a province of France deriving its name from the Arverni, a Gallic tribe who once occupied the area. In 52 BC, Arverni chieftain Vercingetorix mounted a fierce resistance against the military forces of Julius Caesar. [1] Christianized by Saint Austremoine, Auvergne was quite prosperous
To avoid the STO, tens of thousands of men fled into the mountains and forests of France and joined the maquis, the rural resistance fighters against the German occupation. [ 13 ] In 1943, three men, mountaineer Pierre Dalloz , soldier Alain Le Ray , and writer Jean Prévost planned to use the Vercors as a redoubt and a staging area for ...
Quickly, in the Auvergne mountains, 10,000 men were assembled under Coulaudon's command at the three hideouts. [14] After repelling an initial attack on 2 June, on 10 June, the 2,700 maquisards at Mont Mouchet were attacked by elements of two German columns from Brioude, Saugues and Saint-Flour, under the command of Kurt Jesser. The resistants ...
Between the 1988 and 2023 Tour de France summit finishes, only the first part of the ascent to the Col de Ceyssat was covered in the 13th stage of the 2020 Tour de France. The 2012 construction of the Puy de Dôme rack railway narrowed the already very narrow road to the top.
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The Arverni (Gaulish: *Aruernoi) were a Gallic people dwelling in the modern Auvergne region during the Iron Age and the Roman period. They were one of the most powerful tribes of ancient Gaul, contesting primacy over the region with the neighbouring Aedui. [1] They are mentioned in 207 BC as treating with Carthaginian commandant Hasdrubal Barca.