Puy-de-Dôme
Puy de Dôme is a lava dome and one of the youngest volcanoes in the Chaîne des Puys region of Massif Central in central France. This chain of volcanoes including numerous cinder cones, lava domes and maars is far from the edge of any tectonic plate.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,464 metres
- Description: volcano in France
- Also known as: “Puy de Dome” and “Puy de Dôme”
Photo: Clermont63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Temple of Mercury and Col de Ceyssat.
Temple of Mercury
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr.
The Temple of Mercury at Puy de Dôme is a Gallo-Roman trachyte temple built in the 2nd century at the summit of the lava dome. It replaced a 1st-century arkose temple on the same site, which was apparently too small to accommodate the many pilgrims who visited.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Égaules and Chamalières.
Égaules
Hamlet
Égaules is a small hamlet, part of the Volvic commune in Puy-de-Dôme département, in Auvergne, France. It is situated at an altitude of 800 m upon a spur, where the thalweg is incised at 666 m above sea level. Égaules is situated 8 km northeast of Puy-de-Dôme.
Chamalières
Town
Photo: Alexandre.chassignon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chamalières is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, central France. With 17,276 inhabitants, Chamalières is the fourth-largest town in the department. Chamalières is situated 8 km east of Puy-de-Dôme.
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a city in central France, the capital of the Auvergne region. Population 140,000.
Puy-de-Dôme
- Categories: extinct volcano, lava dome, free flight site, scenic viewpoint, main peak, one-thousander, and landform
- Location: Orcines, Arrondissement of Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude
45.77265° or 45° 46′ 22″ northLongitude
2.96441° or 2° 57′ 52″ eastElevation
1,464 metres (4,803 feet)Open location code
8FQ4QXF7+3QOpenStreetMap ID
node 34563650OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Puy-de-Dôme” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Դոմ (լեռ, Ֆրանսիա)”
- Armenian: “Դոմ”
- Basque: “Puy de Dôme sumendia”
- Belarusian: “Дом (гара, Францыя)”
- Belarusian: “Дом”
- Breton: “Puèi Domat”
- Bulgarian: “Пюи дьо Дом”
- Catalan: “Puèi Domat”
- Cebuano: “Puy de Dôme”
- Chinese: “多姆山”
- Czech: “Puy de Dôme”
- Danish: “Puy de Dôme”
- Dutch: “Puy de Dome”
- Dutch: “Puy de Dôme”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پوى د دوم”
- Esperanto: “Puy de Dôme”
- Finnish: “Puy de Dôme”
- French: “puy de Dôme”
- French: “Puy de Dôme”
- Georgian: “პიუი-დე-დომი”
- German: “Puy de Dôme”
- Greek: “Πουί ντε Ντομ”
- Greek: “Πυί ντε Ντομ”
- Hebrew: “פוי דה דום”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Dôme”
- Indonesian: “Puy-de-Dôme”
- Interlingue: “Puy de Dôme”
- Italian: “Puy de Dôme”
- Japanese: “ピュイ・ド・ドーム”
- Korean: “퓌드돔”
- Ladin: “Puy de Dôme”
- Latin: “Podium Dumiatis”
- Latvian: “Pijdedoms”
- Lithuanian: “Piui de Domas”
- Macedonian: “Пиј де Дом”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Puy de Dôme”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Puy de Dôme”
- Norwegian: “Puy de Dôme”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Puèi de Doma”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Puèi Domat”
- Persian: “پوی دو دم”
- Polish: “Puy de Dôme”
- Portuguese: “Puy de Dôme”
- Russian: “Дом”
- Russian: “Пюи-де-Дом”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Puy-de-Dôme”
- Slovak: “Puy de Dôme”
- Spanish: “Puy de Dome”
- Spanish: “Puy de Dôme”
- Swedish: “Puy de Dôme”
- Swedish: “Puy-de-Dôme”
- Ukrainian: “Пюї-де-Дом”
- Venetian: “Puy de Dôme”
- Western Panjabi: “پائی ڈی ڈوم”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Espace Temple de Mercure and Le-puy-de-dome.
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