Chamalières

Sister cities

• Geretsried

History

Several thousand wooden Gallo-Roman ex-votos, most of them anthropomorphic standing figures, also including images of limbs and internal organs, dated by associated coins to the first century, were recovered from the shrine at the mineral springs known as the Source des Roches ("Rock Spring"). An inscribed lead tablet found at the spring is a major source of information on the Gaulish language. A comparable cache of Gaulish ex-voto were recovered from a sanctuary at the sources of the Seine, sacred to Sequana.

Most-observed species

• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,590
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,476
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,874
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,726
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,720
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,653
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,229
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  1,222

Most recent

• M 4.2 — 2022-05-09
  5 km SW of Villebret, France
• M 2.6 — 2008-11-16
  4 km N of Saint-Georges-de-Mons, France
• M 2.6 — 2008-09-12
  5 km E of Mont-Dore, France
• M 2.5 — 2008-09-12
  9 km SSW of Saint-Sauves-d'Auvergne, France
• M 2.5 — 2008-09-11
  7 km SW of Aydat, France
• M 3 — 2008-09-10
  4 km E of Mont-Dore, France