Things to do in Clermont-Ferrand
Around Clermont-Ferrand, Notrebellefrance lists 25 tourist sites within 25 km, including 9 castles, 5 natural wonders, 2 museums and 2 towns and cities. Not to be missed: Clermont-Ferrand, Le Puy de Dôme and Le Puy de la Vache.
Clermont-Ferrand
Historic capital of Auvergne, whose Gothic cathedral in black Volvic stone dominates the city born from the merger of two rival towns.
Le Puy de Dôme
The Puy de Dôme is a dormant volcano of the Chaîne des Puys, in the Massif Central. It is about fifteen kilometres from Clermont-Ferrand and gave its name to the Puy-de-Dôme département.
Le Puy de la Vache
The Puy de la Vache and Lassolas are two twin volcanoes with breached craters. Fluid lava flows carried away half of the craters.
L'Aventure Michelin
Set off for the Michelin Adventure!
Royatonic
Under a majestic wooden dome, or in the open air in a volcanic setting: fitness, relaxation and wellbeing await you every day, all year round. Enjoy at leisure the activities of the pools and baths filled with thermal water, bubble beds, massage jets, scented bath, counter-current.
Château de la Batisse
Grotte de la Pierre de Volvic
Château de Tournoël
Volcan de lemptégy
The Lemptégy Volcano, a 100% natural site, unique in Europe, welcomes you all year round.
Gorges d'Enval
Vulcania
15 km from Clermont-Ferrand, the first scientific exploration park on volcanoes and Earth sciences invites the visitor to be in turn actor and spectator, to live the planetary dynamics that shape the surface of the Earth, the many forms taken by…
Château de Saint-Saturnin
Saint-Saturnin
Built on a lava flow in the green Veyre valley, this village once belonged to the Auvergne family of La Tour, to whom we owe its imposing castle of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Château de Busséol
Manoir de Veygoux
Château de Chazeron
In the Middle Ages the castle was a simple wooden military fortress, benefiting from a strategic position on the Chazeron hill (next to Châtelguyon).
Montpeyroux
Montpeyroux, that is "stony mount", is not built of lava stone but of local arkose stone, which gives it a surprising coppery luminosity.
Château-Dauphin
Musée départemental de la Céramique
Château de Ravel
The construction of this vast fortress, a royal property, goes back to 1147 and that of its gardens to the eighteenth century.
Château de Cordès
Grottes du Cornadore
Les Fontaines Pétrifiantes de Saint Nectaire
Chaîne des Puys
About forty kilometres of volcanic alignment gather a hundred cones and domes inherited from intense eruptive activity. Inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage since 2018, the Chaîne des Puys forms one of the most singular landscapes of the Massif Central.
