Porte Sud

Porte Sud is an archaeological site in Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Porte Sud is situated nearby to the locality Gergovie plateau, as well as near the scenic viewpoint Plateau de Gergovie.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Archeological Museum of the Battle of Gergovia and Oppidum de Gergovie.

Archeological Museum of the Battle of Gergovia

Museum

Photo: Musée de Gergovie, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Archeological Museum of the Battle of Gergovia is situated 1 km east of Porte Sud.

Oppidum de Gergovie

Archaeological site

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Oppidum de Gergovie is an archaeological site, which is situated 740 metres northeast of Porte Sud.

Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Gergovie

Church

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Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Gergovie is a church, which is situated 1 km southeast of Porte Sud.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gergovie plateau and Gergovie.

Gergovie plateau

Locality

The Gergovie plateau is a plateau of the Massif Central located 10 km to the south of Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France and is named after the nearby village of Gergovie.

Gergovie is a French village in the commune of La Roche-Blanche in the Puy-de-Dôme département, a few kilometres south of Clermont-Ferrand. It is situated at the foot of the Gergovie plateau, the official but disputed site of the Battle of Gergovia, where…

Le Crest

Village

Photo: Romary, CC BY 2.5.

Le Crest is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France. It is part of the urban area of Clermont-Ferrand. Originally, it was a market village in a rural area known for viticulture and other agricultural crops. Le Crest is situated 3½ km south of Porte Sud.

Porte Sud

Type: Archaeological site
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude

45.71793° or 45° 43′ 5″ north

Longitude

3.11578° or 3° 6′ 57″ east

Open location code

8FQ5P498+58

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4401491826

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

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