Puy de Dôme is actually a double dome, 1465m tall, formed during two eruptions (a few centuries apart) around 11000 years ago. Blaise Pascal proved the…
A train line was first built in 1907 but it was replaced with a road in 1926. In 2007, the summit road was converted back to a train line.
The summit path starts at altitude 1100m and ends at the top of the volcano (altitude: 1465m).
Summit.
Weather station and TV antenna.
Pilot E. Renoux and his mechanics landed a plane here on 7 March 1911. It took them less than 6 hours to reach the summit from Paris, including a technical…
Gallo-roman temple of Mercury, 2nd century AD.
Gallo-roman temple of Mercury, 2nd century AD.
Gallo-roman temple of Mercury, 2nd century AD.
Gallo-roman temple of Mercury, 2nd century AD.
Gallo-roman temple of Mercury, 2nd century AD.
Clermont-Ferrand.
Chain of the Puys (volcanoes), around 40km long. Puy de Dôme is the tallest of the more than 80 puys. The volcanoes erupted between 95000 and 8000 years…
Blaise Pascal proved the…