Fayet-the-castle

Geography

Fayet-the-castle is on an outcrop of the granitic base, at an altitude of 650m. The common one counts approximately 250 inhabitants, the castelfayettois. The name of the village is a derivative of " Fagus" , the beech, a leafy tree which abounds in the forests neighborhood.

Localities and variations

Locality the CHEIX: A " cheix" , in local language, it is a large block of granite. They abound on the hill of Cheix and in the valleys neighborhoods, carted by the glaciers which gave up them there with the thaw which followed the end of the last glacial period. Cheix was very a long time a village of carriers and stone masons, exploiting this resource abundant and much in demand during the 19th century and until the whole beginning of XXe (paving of roads, pavements, lintels, stones of angles). This activity today completely disappeared and the locality is deserted today and counts nothing any more but six inhabited houses.

MAGIC STONES: The shape of certain blocks of granite located in the valley behind " Cheix" and their size (some exceed 5 meters in height) evoke figures of legends. Certain sites were probably used as place of worships animists with the tribes arvernes. That of the " three pierres" , which seems posed one on the other in unstable balance, is almost magic.

Communes bordering

in the canton of Saint-Dier-in Auvergne:

Estandeuil and Saint-Jean-of-Ollières the;

in the Canton of Billom (district of Clermont-Ferrand):

Égliseneuve-près-Billom, Mauzun and Montmorin;

in the Canton of Vic-the-Count (district of Clermont-Ferrand):

Isserteaux .

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

FORON (Guy): Guy Foron was during one half-century the heart and the sawlog of the small hamlet of Cheix. Generally assembling its sawlog to back of man, it contributed to its safeguard after the disappearance of the majority of the inhabitants because of rural migration during second half of the 20th century.

See too

Common of the Puy-de-Dôme

External bonds

Fayet-the-Castle on the site of the national geographical Institute
Fayet-the-Castle on the site of INSEE
Fayet-the-Castle on the site of Quid
Localization of Fayet-the-Castle on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Fayet-the-Castle on Mapquest

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