Saint-Flour est une commune française située dans le département du Cantal en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Siège d'un diocèse depuis 1317, la ville fut pressentie pour être la préfecture du Cantal. C'est aujourd'hui une des deux sous-préfectures du département avec Mauriac. La ville rayonne sur un vaste territoire rural et arrive à regrouper tous les services d'une ville de 15 à 30 000 habitants.
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Saint-Flour is a commune in the south-central French department of Cantal, approximately 100 km south of Clermont-Ferrand. Its inhabitants are called Sanflorains.
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Saint-Flour Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Saint-Flour in the Auvergne, France. The dedication is to Saint Peter and Saint Florus, the first bishop of Lodève, who is also the eponym of the town. It has been a monument historique since 30 October 1906.
The cathedral is the seat of the Bishops of Saint-Flour.
It is a Gothic structure, built between 1398 and 1466.
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The canton of Saint-Flour-2 is an administrative division of the Cantal department, southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Saint-Flour.
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The arrondissement of Saint-Flour is an arrondissement of France in the Cantal department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has 98 communes. Its population is 36,904, and its area is 2,510.6 km2.
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Cantal is a rural department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France, with its prefecture in Aurillac. Its other principal towns are Saint-Flour and Mauriac; its residents are known as Cantalians. Cantal borders the departments of Puy-de-Dôme, Haute-Loire, Aveyron, Lot, Lozère and Corrèze, in the Massif Central natural region.
Along with neighbouring Lozère and Creuse, Cantal is among the most sparsely populated and geographically isolated departments of France and Aurillac is the departmental capital farthest removed from a major motorway. It had a population of 144,196 in 2023, making it the country's fifth least populated department.
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