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Department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Puy-de-dome is a department in the Auvergne region. It is an area which is richly diverse in both landscape and 'flora and fauna' including eagles, eagle owls, ospreys, red squirrels, wild boar, roe deer, stags and mouflon sheep, to name but a few which inhabit this rather beautiful and largely undiscovered part of France.
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Minérail, musée de la mine à Messeix
The Saint-Louis shaft pit includes models, a metal headframe, an extraction machine, tools, various machinery and a tourist mining train tours the site.
Musée de la mine à Brassac-les-Mines
Installed in the Bayard shaft extraction machine room. Galleries are reconstructed in the concrete base of the machine. On the mine square, the 34-meter metal headframe remains.
Maison de la mine et du tourisme de Saint-Éloy-les-Mines
Built at the foot of the Saint-Joseph shaft headframe. A small enclosed courtyard displays heavy equipment. The museum reception also serves as a tourist office.
13th century chateau-hotel in the Volcano Regional Park. Table d'hote restaurant, large car park, all rooms have en-suite bathrooms.
By train
It is also well served by both rail, with links to Paris, Lyon and the South of France and motorway by the A75 which runs right through the centre of the Auvergne.
By tram
Travelling around the city has never been so easy with the Tram now fully open and which links Aubiere to the south and Riom to the north of Clermont and also encompasses the old historical district…
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Clermont-Ferrand · International · CFE
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