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Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe
10th-century chapel balanced on an 85-metre volcanic plug in Le Puy-en-Velay, reached by 268 steps spiralling up the rock: one of France's most improbable and photographed buildings.
2 km · about 5 min drive
Rhône-Alpes, France · Europe
Vals-près-le-Puy is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Chadrac, 2km from Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe.
Vals-près-le-Puy is a town located in Rhône-Alpes, France. With a population of 3,758, it is an important destination in Europe.
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Vals-près-le-Puy (French pronunciation: [vals pʁɛ lə pɥi], lit. 'Vals near Le Puy'; Occitan: Val delh Puèi), is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France. Its inhabitants are called Valladiers (masc.) and Valladières (fem.).
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Vals-près-le-Puy is located in Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe. The coordinates are 45.0316 latitude, 3.8779 longitude.
Vals-près-le-Puy has a population of approximately 3,758 people, making it a town in France.
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10th-century chapel balanced on an 85-metre volcanic plug in Le Puy-en-Velay, reached by 268 steps spiralling up the rock: one of France's most improbable and photographed buildings.
2 km · about 5 min drive
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Gustave Eiffel's crimson 1884 railway arch spanning 165 m across the Truyère gorge in the Cantal, a direct engineering ancestor of his tower and floodlit red at night; viewpoints sit just off the A75.
55 km · about 65 min drive
April to October
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