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

Communes bordering

• in the canton of Lezoux :
  Bulhon, Culhat, Lempty, Orléat, Saint-Jean-with Heurs and Seychalles;
• in the Canton of Billom (District of Clermont-Ferrand) :
  Bort-l' Pond;
• in the Canton of Vertaizon (district of Clermont-Ferrand) :
  Moissat and Ravel.

History

The town of Lezoux was specialized, as of the 1st century, in manufacture and the export of Poterie S and Céramique S. Its workshop of sigillée Céramique was one of most important of the Roman epoch.

Administration

Demography

Inheritance

Religious heritage

• Convent Saint-Augustin (XVe century), transformed into Town hall
• Vault Saint-Georges (XIIe century), vestige of the fortress of Lezoux

Civil inheritance

• Turn (XIIe century), vestige of the fortress of Lezoux
• the war memorial is one of the War memorials pacifist French, it is registered there " With the children of Lezoux, victims of the war, with those which fought for the abolir".

Museum

The Museum of the Ceramic : opened in March 2007, it exposes on 2200 m ² in the old factory of Poterie Bompard (XIXe century), of many testimonys of local manufacture. Lezoux was a great European center of transport and manufacture of potteries in antiquity. It succeeds the museum municipal which closed in 2004. The current museum is managed by the general advice Puy-de-Dôme.

Twinnings

Rare quadrangular twinning, implying four communes (of which Lezoux):

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India also takes part has an exchange with Lezoux, the pupils of each country leave food 1 or 2 week in an Indian and French family.

See too

• Common of the Puy-de-Dôme

External bonds

• Lezoux on the site of the national geographical Institute
• Lezoux on the site of INSEE
• Lezoux on the site of Quid
• Localization of Lezoux on a chart of France and communes bordering
• Plane on Lezoux on Mapquest
• the site of the museum of ceramics

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