Streets squares and districts to visit Puy-De-Dôme

Go and meet art in all its forms! To help you, the Sommet Urbain Clermontois (SUC) association has created a tour that will guide you through the heart of the old town... but not only! The circuit includes nearly 45 places - galleries, artists' studios, antique shops - and dozens of works of street art to find through the alleys of the central plateau. Among them, works by Clermont-Ferrand artists, knitted graffiti or the mosaics of the renowned Space Invader. The leaflet is available at the FRAC and in the partner places.

Nonette, from the top of its volcanic dyke, offers one of the most beautiful panoramas of the region on the hills Dore, Le, Cantal, Livradois, the County, the Cézallier, the Domes Domes. The village, dominated by the Allier, preserved its remains as well as beautiful mansions of the th and th centuries. The church Saint-Nicolas, a Romanesque building enlarged in the Gothic era, has a very beautiful portal, interesting capitals, a th century Nonette marble bust representing Christ. The castle, currently in ruins, was in turn possession of the Comptours of Apchon, the Dukes of Auvergne, the royalty, the Duke of Berry who made one of its favorite residences. He did not survive, like many others, the wave of demolition undertaken by Richelieu. Note that Nonette is a town-stage of the Tour de France Mountain Bike.

From Victory Square, get off by the rue des Chaussetiers, made up of very old houses with the beautiful stone facades of Volvic. The Savaron house, built in 1513 for Hugues Savaron, King's adviser, is occupied by a walk, whose inner courtyard reveals a turret, a gallery connecting the two building bodies, and a cul bearing the arms of the Savaron family. At the end of the street you can see antique arcades dating back to the th century. Join Rue des Gras, parallel to the Chaussetiers. It takes its name from the stands that formerly made it up, before it was open on a gentle slope. It is a bit of the postcard of the old town, giving on one side on the cathedral façade, and on the other on the dome of Dome. You can reach the pedestrian and pedestrian street of 11 November, which leads to the rear of the opera house, and to the northeast corner of the place de Jaude. The place serves as a theatre for large demonstrations of all kinds. His new face is only a decade and favours pedestrians. In the summer, its 27 fountains refresh this clermontoise bowl, a former volcanic crater. A few meters from the tramway, the statue of Vercingétorix, works by Bartholdi (1902), was symbolically placed in the axis of Puy de Dome and Rue Blatin, which traces right to Chamalieres. That of the older General Desaix is his counterpart on the other side of the square. Apart from its numerous terraces of cafés and restaurants, its three cinemas (four if you count the cinema of the Ambiances Saint-Dominique), Jaude is also the point of access to the shopping centres Jaude and Square Jaude II. Finally, the newly restored opera house adds its beautiful illuminated facade to colourful illuminations that dress up in the evening.

This street, characteristic of the medieval period, was once the home of the butchers' guild. It is paved and has kept its central gutter. Beautiful half-timbered houses, whose floors are sometimes built in corbelling, are built on both sides. Large basket-handle bays open onto the street and recall its commercial vocation. The Butcher's house (^15th century) and the Dean's house (^16th century) have kept their stone stalls. At the bottom of the street, you can see the Romanesque door of the Boucheries, a vestige of the first enclosure.

The Romanesque church, ancient chapel of a castle destroyed in the th century, is worth a visit for its remarkable collection of th century frescoes representing Christ in Glory and his apostles. You will be able to take a tour of the old mills.

The Saint-Dominique district stretches from the Avenue of the United States to Rue Gabriel-Perished, and although not part of the central plateau, it remains an important place in the city. A relatively calm and pleasant place in the day, with its terraces avenantes in semi-pedestrian streets, it agite at night. Among its special features are its impressive number of restaurants of all kinds and of all horizons, its nightclubs and its places of pleasure… St. Dominic's Street is still very strongly associated with prostitutes who have made it their favourite place since the closure of brothels after the war. Let's also mention the presence of the Ambiances, a little cinema art and trial, that the chance of circumstances has made some sort of revival of its ashes after various events. Côté Jaude, the rue des Minimes leads to the church Saint-Pierre-des-Minimes (which contains, for the anecdote, Pascal's certificate of baptism); to the opposite is the courthouse, then Fontgiève street ("Jewish fountain"). Saint-Dominique remains a popular neighbourhood for strong identity.