CONVENIENT
INFORMATION
Situation: Mozac (3762 inhabitants
& 23 trades) touches Riom (+19300
inhabitants), who is daily joined with Paris by direct line of railway. Generally,
journey lasts less than 4 hours: look at SNCF (French railways) timetable http://www.sncf.com/ or with
your travel agency.
Riom is far 16 km (10 miles) from
North of Clermont Ferrand, (The agglomeration has more than 250 000
inhabitants, the township more than 140 000 ) gone against very well by Aulnat International airport, European Hub of Regional
Airlines and Air
France (more than 150 flights joining 30 European cities
daily). low cost flights with FlyBE.com, Iberia, Air Corsica, and
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Arrivals building
Aulnat Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport (IATA code: CFE •
OACI code: LFLC), 26 runway approach,
Clermont-Ferrand and Chaîne des Puys
mountains.
Numerous urban
busses and taxicabs, hotels, restaurants are available for your comfort. We are
settled 5 km (3 miles) from Volvic, the famous universally known source, in
border of the Parc Régional des Volcans d’ Auvergne (Regional Park of Volcanoes of
Auvergne) that serves classroom to our mabinogi. We
can recover you to the station of Riom, or to airport, consult us.
Theoretically ODA
members meet every month, (for ceremonies and learning), but foreign people
come only one time (or few) per year for great feasts (Solstices, Beltaine,
Lugnasad.) and spent theirs holidays among us.
Small
preview of that that you can see in our countries
More than all whole this web site would be necessary
to show you about hundred castles, churches and priories of all times that
abound in our Holy Countries. The heritage of our nation is full of memories,
of which some go up at dawn of times.
Volcanoes and lakes strew of their mosaic The Regional Park of Volcanoes
of Auvergne, that is an unique setting to the world. For amateurs of
archaeology, caves, menhirs, dolmens and oppidas don't miss no more.
But, it is only while coming to see all that in the
inimitable setting of the Earth Arverne that you will feel all the Magic of it.
In border of the Regional Park of Volcanoes of
Auvergne, Mozac, whose Gallic name was « Nemeton Mos Akvos », that
means « Sanctuary in the middle of waters» possesses one of the most
remarkable Roman Benedictine abbeys of clunisian type, with splendid capitals
and stalls, that contains the largest reliquary in enamel work
"champlevés" in the world.
This pleasant village is irrigated by many rivers of
which Ambène « Ambes Bena » in Gallic, « Lady of River »
otherwise "Nymph", who is born in Celtic country of Combrailles.
.
Famous Mozac Abbey (XII)
Its touching
neighbour in East, Riom, ancient capital of Dukes of Auvergne, is very
picturesque, with its medieval churches, its old hotels, its museums and its
“Holy Chapel”. South of Riom and Mozac are vestiges of the ancient city of
Mirabelenos (site of Mirabelle) of which some goes up at least from Neolithic.
Holy Chapel in Riom
Tour de l’Horloge, Clock Tower in Riom
Court of Tournoël Castle
View of Limagne plain from Tournoël Castle
