Chamalières

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Coordinates: 45°46′28″N 3°04′04″E / 45.7744444444, 3.06777777778

Commune of Chamalières Town hall of Chamalières
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Auvergne
Department	Puy-de-Dôme
Arrondissement	Clermont-Ferrand
Canton	Chamalières
Intercommunality	Clermont Communauté
Mayor	Louis Giscard d'Estaing (2005-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	385 m–582 m (avg. 415 m)
Land area¹	3.77 km²
Population² (1999)	18,136
- Density	4,810.6/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	63075/ 63400
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Chamalières is a town and commune in France, in the third-largest in the Puy-de-Dôme département. It is about 150 miles from Lyon.

Contents 1 History 2 Notes 3 Further reading 4 External links

[edit] 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.^[1]

[edit] Notes

[edit] Further reading

• Romeuf, Anne-Marie, and Monique Dumontet. Les ex-voto gallo-romains de la source des roches à Chamalières (Puy-de-Dôme) (Clermont-Ferrand:Musée Bargoin) 1980. ISBN-13: 978-2-7351-0640-0

[edit] External links

• Official website (French)
• ex-votos from the Source des Roches on display at the Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand.