Châteaugay

Châteaugay is a common French, located in the department of the Puy-de-Dôme and the area of Auvergne. Châteaugay belongs to the urban surface of Clermont-Ferrand. Its inhabitants is called Châteaugayres. One should not confuse Châteaugay with Châteauguay, city of the Quebec, located in southern suburbs of Montreal.

Geography

The village is located at the end of a volcanic basaltic plate (the plate of Lachaud, coming from the Chaîne of Puys) which dominates the plain of the Limagne.

History

Of rural nature and vine grower during all first half of the XXe century, the village becomes little by little a residential commune with the realization of a great number of individual constructions. Two artisanal and commercial zones, one in the borough, the other in edge of the Trunk road 9, supplement local economic fabric.

Administration

Twin towns

Demography

Places and monuments

Castle , including/understanding a keep of the 14th century.

Built in 1381 by Pierre de Giac, chancellor of the king Charles VI, on the site of a castle of the 11th century having belonged to the Vigosche family. It comprised in the beginning a central building and two turrets of guêt, to which two turns ciquante years were added later, then at the 15th century and the Renaissance various extensions and decorations (including one superb stone door in the interior court). The castle, from where one has a seizing sight on the Limagne, the Monts of Drill, and the Chaîne of Puys, is opened with the visit.

Vineyard

In 1809 when Napoleon 1st made establish the 1st Cadastre, all the slope exposed to the south and the east in edge of the plain of Limagne was covered with vines. The vineyard of Chateaugay (Gamay and Chardonnay) extends on its slopes since the 18th century, and produces a wine of name VDQS Côtes of Auvergne.

Street of the cellars

It is bordered of cellars dug directly in the volcanic rock by prisoners of the time of Napoleon i.

Park Jay

park located in the center of the village, opened with various animations, raised and in particular comprising two large Cedar S.

Personalities related to the commune

Pierre de Giac, chancellor of France, made build the castle.

the Marquis de Lafayette, member of the Assemblée of notable the then General states regularly visited the Marquis de Châteaugay before the French revolution, in order to prepare the reforms which he contemplated.

See too

Common of the Puy-de-Dôme

External bonds

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

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