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Thiers
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This town has a charming old centre, featuring many half-timbered houses, several manors, and various churches. Alongside this, Thiers also boasts a notable industrial heritage due to its cutlery industry.
Overview of Thiers
The town has a charming old centre, featuring many half-timbered houses, several manors, and various churches. Alongside this, Thiers also boasts a notable industrial heritage due to its cutlery industry.
Key Facts
- Type of place: small town.
- Tourist interest: (worth seeing).
- Location: sub-prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department, not far from Clermont-Ferrand.
- Distances: Clermont-Ferrand ( km), Lyon ( km), Saint-Étienne ( km), Vichy ( km).
- Local time: .
- Population: 11,588 inhabitants (2014).
- Area: 44.49 km².
- Altitude: from 283 to 793 m.
- Website: http://www.ville-thiers.fr
History of Thiers
What to See and Do in Thiers
Old Town of Thiers
This is a medieval centre featuring numerous half-timbered houses, several manors, its jaquemart, and various churches and chapels.
This is a medieval centre featuring numerous half-timbered houses, several manors, its jaquemart, and various churches and chapels.
Thiers Cutlery Museum
The museum traces the history and craftsmanship of knives, a specialty of the town.
The museum traces the history and craftsmanship of knives, a specialty of the town.
Thiers Factory Valley
This is the Durolle Valley and its industrial heritage. You can still see the oldest factory in the town still in operation (a cutlery manufacturer) and many 19th-century workers' housing. Nearby, the Rouets Valley and the remains of its former blade-grinding workshops.
This is the Durolle Valley and its industrial heritage. You can still see the oldest factory in the town still in operation (a cutlery manufacturer) and many 19th-century workers' housing. Nearby, the Rouets Valley and the remains of its former blade-grinding workshops.
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Old Town of Thiers
★★ This is a medieval centre featuring numerous half-timbered houses, several manors, its jaquemart, and various churches and chapels.
Thiers Factory Valley
★★ This is the Durolle Valley and its industrial heritage. You can still see the oldest factory in the town still in operation (a cutlery…
Hell's Hollow
★ The place is a contemporary art centre.
Thiers Cutlery Museum
★ The museum traces the history and craftsmanship of knives, a specialty of the town.