Auvergne
Haute-Loire
Arrondissement du Puy-en-Velay

Le Puy-en-Velay

Le Puy-en-Velay is the prefecture and main town of the Haute-Loire department, in , 150 km south-west from . It is an old town with legendary history, historically an important pilgrimage destination, and still a main starting point for the St.
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  • Type: Town with 18,600 residents
  • Description: commune in Haute-Loire, France
  • Also known as: “Le Puy”, “Le Puy-Sainte-Marie”, “Lo Puèi de Velai”, “Puy”, and “Puy-en-Velay”
  • Postal codes: 43000 and 43000
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint Michel d’Aiguilhe and Musée Crozatier.

Church
Photo: Hélène Grenier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe is a in , near Le Puy-en-Velay, . The chapel is reached by 268 steps carved into the rock. It was built in 969 on a volcanic plug 85 metres high.

Museum
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The is a in Le Puy-en-Velay in the Auvergne. Inaugurated in 1868, its collection comprises art and archaeological artifacts from Velay and the region. The museum has undergone a major renovation from 2010 to 2018.

Railway station
Photo: Jojovichy, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Espaly-Saint-Marcel and Vals-près-le-Puy.

Village
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is a commune in the department in south-central .

Village
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, is a commune in the department in south-central . Its inhabitants are called Valladiers and Valladières.

Village
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is a commune in the department in south-central . is close to Le Puy-en-Velay, and famous for the chapel. Raymond of Aguilers was from here.

Le Puy-en-Velay

Latitude
45.046° or 45° 2′ 46″ north
Longitude
3.8856° or 3° 53′ 8″ east
Population
18,600
Elevation
640 metres (2,100 feet)
IATA airport code
LPY
United Nations Location Code
FR LPY
Open location code
8FQ52VWP+96
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691899
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3002465
Wiki­data ID
Q184359
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Le Puy-en-Velay” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Arabic: “لو بوي أون فيلاي”
  • Aragonese: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Aragonese: “Lo Puèi de Velai”
  • Armenian: “Լը Պյուի ան Վելե”
  • Arpitan: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Asturian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Bambara: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Basque: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Bavarian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Belarusian: “Ле-Пюі-ан-Веле”
  • Bengali: “ল্য প্যুই-অঁ-ভ্যলে”
  • Breton: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Breton: “Le Puy”
  • Breton: “Lo Puèi de Velai”
  • Buginese: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Cajun French: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Catalan: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Catalan: “Lo Puèi de Velai”
  • Cebuano: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Cebuano: “Puy-en-Velay”
  • Chechen: “Ле-Пуьи-ан-Веле”
  • Chinese: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Chinese: “勒皮”
  • Chinese: “勒皮昂沃莱”
  • Chinese: “勒皮昂沃萊”
  • Chinese: “韦莱地区勒皮伊”
  • Corsican: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Croatian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Czech: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Danish: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Dutch: “Le Puy en Velay”
  • Dutch: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Dutch: “Lo Puèi de Velai”
  • Dutch: “Puy-en-Velay”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لو بوى اون فيلاى”
  • Esperanto: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Esperanto: “Le Puy”
  • Esperanto: “Lo Puèi de Velai”
  • Esperanto: “Lo Puèi”
  • Estonian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Faroese: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Finnish: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • French: “Anicium”
  • French: “Espace urbain du Puy-en-Velay”
  • French: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • French: “Le Puy-Sainte-Marie”
  • French: “Le Puy”
  • French: “Lo Puèi de Velai”
  • French: “Puy en Velay”
  • French: “Puy-en-Velay”
  • French: “Taulhac-près-le-Puy”
  • Friulian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Galician: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • German: “Le Puy en Velay”
  • German: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • German: “Le Puy”
  • German: “Lo Puèi de Velai”
  • German: “Puy-en-Velay”
  • Greek: “Λε Πουί-αν-Βελαί”
  • Hebrew: “לה פווי-אן-ולה”
  • Hebrew: “לה פוי-אן-ולה”
  • Hebrew: “לה פוי”
  • Hungarian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Icelandic: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Ido: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Indonesian: “Le Puy en Velay”
  • Indonesian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Indonesian: “Le-Puy-en-Velay”
  • Interlingua: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Interlingue: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Irish: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Italian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Italian: “Lo Puèi de Velai”
  • Italian: “Puy-en-Velay”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Japanese: “ル・ピュイ＝アン＝ヴレ”
  • Kabyle: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Kalaallisut: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Kazakh: “Ле-Пюи-ан-Веле”
  • Kirghiz: “Ле-Пюи”
  • Kongo: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Korean: “르퓌앙벌레”
  • Korean: “르퓌앙블레”
  • Korean: “르피앙블레”
  • Kurdish: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Ladin: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Latin: “Anicium Vellavorum”
  • Latin: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Latin: “Podium Vellavorum”
  • Latvian: “Lepijanvelē”
  • Ligurian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Limburgan: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Lithuanian: “Le Piui en Veli”
  • Low German: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Luxembourgish: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Macedonian: “Ле Пиј ан Веле”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Malagasy: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Malay: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Minangkabau: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Narom: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Neapolitan: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Norwegian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lo Puèi de Velai”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lo Puèi”
  • Ossetian: “Ле-Пюи-ан-Веле”
  • Papiamento: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Persian: “لو پوی-آن-ولی”
  • Picard: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Piemontese: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Polish: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Polish: “Le Puy”
  • Portuguese: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Portuguese: “Puy-en-Velay”
  • Prussian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Romagnol: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Romanian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Romansh: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Russian: “Ле Пюи”
  • Russian: “Ле-Пюи-ан-Веле”
  • Russian: “Ле-Пюи”
  • Russian: “Пюи-ан-Вале”
  • Russian: “Пюи-ан-Веле”
  • Russian: “Пюи”
  • Sardinian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Scots: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Serbian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Serbian: “Ле Пиј ан Веле”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Sicilian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Silesian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Slovak: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Slovenian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Spanish: “Le Puy en Velay”
  • Spanish: “Le Puy en-Velay”
  • Spanish: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Spanish: “Le-Puy-en-Velay”
  • Spanish: “Lo Puei de Velai”
  • Spanish: “Lo Puèi de Velai”
  • Swahili: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Swedish: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Swedish: “Le Puy”
  • Swedish: “Puy-en-Velay”
  • Swiss German: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Tatar: “Ле-Пюи-ан-Веле”
  • Thai: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Thai: “เลอ ปู-ยอง-เวอเล”
  • Thai: “เลอปุย-อ็อง-เวอแล”
  • Thai: “เลอปูว์ย็องเวอแล”
  • Tibetan: “ལ་ཕུའི་ཨང་ཝ་ལེ་”
  • Tibetan: “ལ་ཕུའི་ཨང་ཝ་ལེ།”
  • Turkish: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Ukrainian: “Ле Пюї-ан-Веле”
  • Ukrainian: “Ле-Пюї-ан-Веле”
  • Urdu: “لو پوی-اں-وئلے”
  • Uzbek: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Venetian: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Vietnamese: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Vlaams: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Volapük: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Walloon: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Welsh: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Wolof: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • Wu Chinese: “佛來崮”
  • Yue Chinese: “勒皮”
  • Zulu: “Le Puy-en-Velay”
  • “Le Puy-en-Velay”

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