Chamalières

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Chamalières
Commune
Town hall
Town hall
Coat of arms of Chamalières
Coat of arms
Country France
Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Puy-de-Dôme
Arrondissement Clermont-Ferrand
Canton Chamalières
Intercommunality Clermont Auvergne Métropole
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Louis Giscard d'Estaing[1]
Area1 3.77 km2 (1.46 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)2 Lua error in Module:Wd at line 405: invalid escape sequence near '"^'.
INSEE/Postal code 63075 / 63400
Elevation 385–582 m (1,263–1,909 ft)
(avg. 415 m or 1,362 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Chamalières (French pronunciation: ​[ʃamaljɛʁ]; Auvergnat: Chamaleiras) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, central France.[2]

With 17,276 inhabitants (2019), Chamalières is the fourth-largest town in the department.[3] It lies adjacent to the west of Clermont-Ferrand and about 150 miles (241 km) 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.[4]

Population

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a.
1968 17,775 —    
1975 18,075 +0.24%
1982 17,486 −0.47%
1990 17,301 −0.13%
1999 18,136 +0.53%
2007 17,710 −0.30%
2012 17,480 −0.26%
2017 17,173 −0.35%
Source: INSEE[5]

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 West African CFA franc banknotes.

People

See also

References

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  2. INSEE commune file
  3. Populations légales 2019: 63 Puy-de-Dôme, INSEE
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  5. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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Further reading

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