Blanzat

Blanzat is a common French, located in the department of the Puy-de-Dôme and the area Auvergne.

Its inhabitants are called Blanzatois.

Geography

Blanzat is located in the valley of Bédat between the collar of Chevalard and the plate of Bade. The village touches Clermont-Ferrand in the South via the hills called Chevalard Blanzat side and Côtes of Clermont side Clermont-Ferrand.

Blanzat is in the South of Riom.

Communes bordering: Cébazat, Châteaugay, Clermont-Ferrand, Durtol, Malauzat, Nohanent, Sayat.

History

The existence of the site of Blanzat is very old. Indeed, the presence of first inhabitants goes up at the time Magdalénien (prehistory) and of many cut flint tools are testimony. Since, Neolithic era at the time Gallo-Roman and of the Middle Ages to the Revolution, the times and the people followed one another to form this charming village of countryside.

At the time of the XIXe century and approximately up to 1914, the village thrived thanks to the fruit-bearing cultures (vine growing then pommiculture) and with industry (Paper mill St Vincent, rubber factory Michelin). But the turning into a desert of the campaigns touched the commune hard, reducing its number of inhabitants to 946 in 1936.

It is finally the development of the car, the new attraction for the périurbaines communes and the strong foreign immigration (with great Portuguese majority) which made it possible the village to be repopulated to reach the 4000 inhabitants.

Administration

Blanzat belongs to Clermont Communauté which gathers twenty-and-a communes of the agglomeration clermontoise.

Demography

Places and monuments

Sports complex of the Cross St Géraud
Church St Pardoux

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Puy-de-Dôme

External bonds

municipal Official site
Blanzat on the site of the national geographical Institute
Blanzat on the site of INSEE
Blanzat on the site of Quid
Localization of Blanzat on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Blanzat on Mapquest

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