Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme Département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

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🇫🇷 Chamalières (Chamaleiras) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, central France. Chamalières is the fourth-largest town in the department. It lies adjacent to the west of Clermont-Ferrand and about 241 km (150 mi) from Lyon.

History Several thousand wooden Gallo-Roman ex-votos, most of them anthropomorphic standing figures, also including images of limbs and internal organs, dated by associated coins to the first century, were recovered from the shrine at the mineral springs known as the Source des Roches ("Rock Spring"). An inscribed lead tablet found at the spring is a major source of information on the Gaulish language. A comparable cache of Gaulish ex-voto were recovered from a sanctuary at the sources of the Seine, sacred to Sequana.

Notable places Chamalières is the place where the Banque de France located its printing works in 1923, which printed former French franc banknotes, and now prints Euro and CFA franc banknotes.

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Chamalières has a population of over 17,276 people. Chamalières also forms part of the wider Clermont-Ferrand Arrondissement which has a population of over 362,755 people. It is also a part of the larger Puy-de-Dôme Department. Chamalières is situated near Clermont-Ferrand.

Twin Towns - Sister Cities Chamalières has links with:

🇩🇪 Geretsried, Germany
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Antipodal to Chamalières is: -176.932,-45.774

Locations Near: Chamalières 3.0678,45.7744

🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 3.077,45.777 d: 0.8  

🇫🇷 Riom 3.114,45.899 d: 14.3  

🇫🇷 Issoire 3.25,45.544 d: 29.3  

🇫🇷 Thiers 3.548,45.857 d: 38.4  

🇫🇷 Vichy 3.434,46.13 d: 48.6  

🇫🇷 Montluçon 2.602,46.339 d: 72.4  

🇫🇷 Saint-Flour 3.094,45.034 d: 82.3  

🇫🇷 Moulins 3.333,46.565 d: 90.3  

🇫🇷 Aubusson 2.162,45.95 d: 72.8  

🇫🇷 Montbrison 4.065,45.609 d: 79.6  

Antipodal to: Chamalières -176.932,-45.774

🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 17271  

🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16464.6  

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 16430.3  

🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15985.6  

🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 12405.5  

🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 12337.3  

🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 12326  

🇺🇸 Wailuku -156.505,20.894 d: 12320.2  

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