Welcome to Auvergne

Discover one of the most beautiful regions in France.

Between tradition and authenticity, as well as its strong economic performance and dynamism, Auvergne invites you to an initial pictorial visit. This is a taste of the sort of trip that you can undertake in the region.

•The Auvergne region has more than 1 300 000 inhabitants

•The Greatest of the Dômes, le Puy de Sancy at 1886 metres

•nearly 40 000 students

•heritage

•regional identity

•authenticity, openness and dynamism.

Without its volcanoes, Auvergne would not be Auvergne.

less than 2000m high (Puy de Sancy at 1,886m)

The Volcano Park is a territory of wide green spaces

Romanesque art heritage

over 250 Romanesque monuments

a few "sanctuaries" that offer the most stunning examples of Romanesque architecture in the Auvergne:

Saint-Nectaire, Orcival, Saint-Saturnin, Saint-Austremoine in Issoire, Notre-Dame du Port in Clermont-Ferrand, the Basilica of Saint-Julien in Brioude ...

All these edifices were built in one single campaign, between the 11th and 12th centuries.

Annual meeting FIG commission 7Clermont-Ferrand

September 8 to 15, 2004

• Symposium on LAND CONSOLIDATION

Symposium

• Experiences of land consolidation in Auvergne Region

• Visit to sites in connection with highway construction and classical procedure

• Meeting city master and agriculture ministry responsible, farmers, surveyors ...

Symposium

• Legislative evolution in France

• New juridical tools

• Exchange with different countries experiences