Puy de Dôme was created by a Peléan eruption, some 10,700 years ago. Puy de Dôme is approximately 10 km (6 miles) from Clermont-Ferrand. The Puy-de-Dôme département is named after the volcano.
■ History
In pre-Christian Europe, Puy de Dôme served as an assembly place for spiritual ceremonies. Temples were built at the summit, including a Gallo-Roman temple of Mercury, the ruins of which were discovered in 1873. In 1648, Florin Périer, at the urging of Blaise Pascal, supported Evangelista Torricelli’s theory that barometric observations were caused by the weight of air by measuring the height of a column of mercury at three elevations on Puy de Dôme. In 1875, a physics laboratory was built at the summit. Since 1956, a TDF (Télédiffusion de France) antenna is also located there. On the top of the mountain, there is a transmitter for FM and TV.
■ Tourism
The Puy de Dôme is one of the most visited sites in the Auvergne region, attracting nearly 500,000 visitors a year. The summit offers expansive views of the Chaîne des Puys and Clermont-Ferrand. It is a well-known centre for paragliding. The summit can be reached by two pedestrian paths: a southern one (”Le sentier des muletiers”, formerly a Roman road) and a northern one (”Le sentier des chèvres”) which runs past the Nid de la Poule crater. The GR 4 long-distance trail includes both paths to cross the mountain. Since May 2012, visitors can also go up the mountain by train with the Panoramique des Dômes, a rack railway. A road exists along the train tracks but it is closed to the general traffic, except for the military, service vehicles or emergencies. At the top of the mountain, restaurants and shops are available as well as a visitor centre giving information on the history and geology of the area.
■ Sport
□■ Cycling
In more recent times, Puy de Dôme has served as an occasional stage finish in the Tour de France. It was here that in 1964 Raymond Poulidor battled with Jacques Anquetil in one of the race’s most famous moments, racing side by side up almost the entire climb； and that in 1975 Eddy Merckx was punched in the kidney by a spectator. According to Jean-François Pescheux, since the construction of a rack railway, and because of the very narrow road, the Tour will never come back to the Puy de Dôme, its last ascent in the race being in 1988. During the 2020 Tour de France, the first part of the ascent is covered via the Col de Ceyssat, during the 13th stage starting in Châtel-Guyon. The road is open to cyclists only during very limited periods (when other vehicles are prohibited). In 2006 this was 7–9am on Wednesdays and Sundays between 1 May and 30 September. In 2017, it was the first checkpoint in the Transcontinental Race, a nonstop, unsupported bicycle race across Europe.
□■ Motorsports
The Circuit de Charade was a motorsport street circuit built in 1957 using pre-existing roads around the base of the Puy de Dôme. The venue hosted the French Grand Prix as well as the French motorcycle Grand Prix several times in the 1960s and early 1970s. In 1986, the track was shortened due to safety issues and was converted into a dedicated motorsport race track hosting track days, driving schools as well as historic motorsport events.

SE 0.4Km	Temple of Mercury (Puy de Dôme)
NW 4.9Km	Vulcania
SE 26.9Km	Saint-Floret
SW 29.4Km	Puy de Sancy
SW 32.7Km	Chaîne des Puys
SE 68.3Km	Lavaudieu
SW 79.2Km	Salers
SW 90.1Km	Le Lioran

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