Le menhir du puy de la Poix, dit la Pierre Piquée, est un menhir couché situé à Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme, région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France).
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Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport is an airport serving the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. It is located 6.8 km east of the city, in Aulnat, both communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne region of France, in the middle of France. It is the main airport of the Auvergne region, the others are Aurillac Airport and Le-Puy-en-Velay Airport. In 2002, the airport handled a record 1,090,417 passengers making it one of the busiest airports in France.
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The Jardin botanique de la Charme, formerly known as the Jardin botanique de la Ville de Clermont-Ferrand, is a municipal botanical garden located at 10, rue de la Charme, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France. It is open weekdays year-round plus weekends in the warmer months; admission is free.
The city's first botanical garden was established in 1781 by Abbé Antoine Delarbre on a rented site, now the Jardin Lecoq, and moved multiple times throughout the centuries.
Today's garden was created in 1974 and currently contains about 2600 plant species arranged in a variety of collections including a systematic collection arranged by botanical family, a collection of trees and ornamental shrubs, perennials, shade garden with ferns, pond and bog plants, medicinal and useful plants, a collection of fruit species, test garden for conifers, and a greenhouse. It also contains a seed collection of 2000 samples.
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Montferrand is a district of the modern town of Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne. Its origin is in the former town of Montferrand, the rival of Clermont for many centuries until their union, decreed on 15 April 1630 by the edict of Troyes and confirmed and effected in 1731 by Louis XV's second edict of union. Wishing to regain independence, Montferrand asked for it in 1789, 1848 and 1863.
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The Stade Marcel-Michelin is a sports ground in Clermont-Ferrand, France. It has been the home of the French rugby union club ASM Clermont-Auvergne since its opening in 1911. The stadium takes its name from the founder of the Association Sportive Michelin, Marcel Michelin, who was the son of the founder of the Michelin tire company. The Association Sportive Michelin was later renamed the Association Sportive Montferrand, and the rugby club became known as ASM Clermont-Auvergne. Although the stadium itself belongs to the rugby club, it is built on ground leased from the Michelin tire company.
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Blaise Pascal University, also known as Université Clermont-Ferrand II, was a public university with its main campus in Clermont-Ferrand, France, with satellite locations in other parts of the region of Auvergne, including Vichy, Moulins, Montluçon, and Aubière. On 1 January 2017, the university merged with the University of Auvergne to form the Clermont Auvergne University.