Saint-Pierre-Colamine

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Saint-Pierre-Colamine
Saint-Pierre-Colamine (France)
Saint-Pierre-Colamine
region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Puy-de-Dôme
Arrondissement Issoire
Canton Le Sancy
Community association Massif du Sancy
Coordinates 45 ° 32 '  N , 2 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 32 '  N , 2 ° 58'  E
height 706-1,223 m
surface 17.20 km 2
Residents 249 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 14 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 63610
INSEE code

Saint-Pierre-Colamine is a French municipality with 249 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Puy-de-Dôme in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It is located in the Arrondissement of Issoire and in the canton of Le Sancy .

Geographical location

The community of 17.2 square kilometers is located northeast of Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise and south of Murol at 706 to 1223 m above sea level .

Attractions

  • Les grottes de Jonas, caves carved in reddish tufa, designed into a fortress in the Middle Ages, 4 floors with 60 living rooms for 600 people; with Romanesque frescoed chapel (9th and 11th centuries)
  • Ruins of an old church in the Lomprat district
  • Dolmen du Lac of the Neolithic
  • Croix de Saint-Verny (medieval stone cross with body)
Grottes de Jonas

Individual evidence

  1. good-times.webshots.com

Web links

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