Lac d'Aydat

Lac d'Aydat
Location Aydat, Puy-de-Dôme
Basin countries France
Surface area 0.65 km²
Max. depth 15 m
Surface elevation 837 m

Lac d'Aydat is a lake in Aydat, Puy-de-Dôme, France. At an elevation of 837 m, its surface area is 0.65 km². It is suggested by some historians that it is the site of Avitacum, the location of the villa belonging to the fifth-century senator and bishop Sidonius Apollinaris, as described in detail in one of his letters.[1]

References

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
  1. ^ Epistulae II.2 as discussed in C. E. Stevens (1933) Sidonius Apollinaris and his Age Oxford: Clarendon Press, Appendix B, p. 185.