Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont Ferrand is a city and commune of France within the Auvergne Rhone Alpes area with a populace of 141,569. Its metropolitan area had 467,178 inhabitants at the 2011 census. It is the prefecture capital of the Puy de Dome department. Olivier Bianchi is its modern day mayor. Clermont Ferrand sits on the obvious of Limagne inside the Massif Central and is surrounded through a main business place. The metropolis recognized for the chain of volcanoes, the Chaine des Puys surrounding it such as the dormant volcano Puy de Dome 10 kilometers one of the maximum crowned by means of communications towers and seen from the metropolis. Clermont Ferrand hosts the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival one of the global main global fairs for brief movies. It is likewise home to the corporate headquarters of Michelin, the global tyre employer founded there more than 100 years ago. Clermont Ferrand first call was Augusta Nemetum. It became born at the imperative knoll where the cathedral is located nowadays, known then as Nemossos. It ignored the capital of Gaulish Avernie. The fortified citadel of Clarus Mons gave its call to the complete town in 848, to which the small Episcopal town of Montferrand turned into attached in 1731, collectively taking the name of Clermont Ferrand.