Pont-du-Château
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The church of Pont-du-Château
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Location within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
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| Coordinates: 45°47′57″N 3°14′57″E / 45.7992°N 3.2492°ECoordinates: 45°47′57″N 3°14′57″E / 45.7992°N 3.2492°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Puy-de-Dôme |
| Arrondissement | Arrondissement of Clermont-Ferrand |
| Canton | Canton of Pont-du-Château |
| Intercommunality | Clermont Communauté |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | René Vinzio |
| Area1 | 21.61 km2 (8.34 sq mi) |
| Population (2006)2 | 10,102 |
| • Density | 470/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 63284 /63430 |
| Elevation | 291–380 m (955–1,247 ft) (avg. 328 m or 1,076 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Pont-du-Château is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.
Located 15 km from Clermont-Ferrand (15 minutes by car), Pont-du-Château is a regional town lying near a strategic crossroad of motorways connecting Paris to Barcelona and Lyon to Bordeaux. Pont-du-Château integrated into the Clermont Community on 1 January 2004. This union reflects the will to realize projects in which development and solidarity are key words. Since joining this community, Pont-du-Château has on a large territory of more than 30,000 square meters with 283,000 inhabitants.
Pont-du-Château a city at the crossroads of the regional parks auvergnats. At a few minutes by car you can discover the Regional Natural reserve of the Volcanos of Auvergne and the Regional Natural reserve of Livradois-Drill.
The museum recalls the life of the boatmen and Castelpontins, through many objects, models and documents. The museum is open every day in July and August and on return you remains to it year
Three boroughs born at the time Carolingian, without one being able to give too precise dates. In the Paulhat west: already during Roman peace existed in the large marsh known under the name of Limagne, of large Gallo-Roman farms, Redon, Picou, Tourette Chazal, but at the time Carolingian the village of Paulhat grows, with the foot of the hillocks of Littes and from Ruchon… If the village of Machal, born with paleolithic under Puy de Mur disappeared, during the invasions Normans appeared on the strengthened hillock, the church co. Martine surrounded by a village which lived activities related to the river Allier.
Guy de Dampierre seized Bridge-of-Castle in 1212, on behalf of the King de France, Philippe Auguste, which attached the city to the crown. Become in the 13th century a true citadel with its "old castle" and its single enclosure, Pilippe Auguste made a garrison city, it equipping soon with two new enclosures with turns, doors, Maigne, Bise, Barrière and carries vault of it, ramparts which one guesses in the plan of the old city. Two churches enriched this inheritance: Co. Martine, beautiful building of Romanesque art whose construction is spread out over several centuries since the 13th century, and recently restored with its rich person paintings of origin; Paulhat, disappeared from the marsh about 1356, rebuilt in the west of the fortifications in 1384, and again destroyed, it will cover in the 16th century, with the Rebirth, an astonishing architecture, a resurgence of the Romanesque art Auvergnat.
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