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Basilica of Notre Dame du Port
The highlight of this 12th-century basilica, a magnificent example of Auvergnat-Romanesque architecture, is its choir, into which the light streams on a summer's day. Inside the crypt of the black Virgin statue, pilgrimage ceremonies are held in May.
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Cathédrale Notre Dame
The soaring, Gothic Cathédrale Notre Dame looks smog-blackened and grim. But the structure's volcanic stones, dug from the quarries of nearby Volvic, were the same blackish-grey hue the day the finishing touches were put to the choir seven centuries ago.
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Musée d'Archéologie Bargoin
The Musée d'Archéologie Bargoin has excellent prehistory and Gallo-Roman sections on the ground floor.
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Musée d'Art Roger Quilliot
The Musée d'Art Roger Quilliot is an excellent fine arts museum within an architecturally exciting complex in Montferrand. It has a fascinating, chronologically arranged collection of sculpture, painting and art objects from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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Musée d'Histoire Naturelle Henri-Lecoq
The Musée d'Histoire Naturelle Henri-Lecoq is a natural history museum with an impressive collection of rocks, fossils, stuffed fauna and pickled things that creep. A new section presents the sad litany of animals of the region that have become extinct over the centuries.
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Musée du Tapis et des Arts Textiles
The Musée du Tapis et des Arts Textiles, in addition to its unique collection of carpets and rugs from the Near and Middle East, mounts excellent temporary textile-related exhibitions (during which the permanent collection is withdrawn).
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Place de Jaude
Place de Jaude, the city's main square, has recently been pedestrianised. Fountains splash and kids play in this recovered urban space, watched over at its northern end by the equestrian statue of Vercingétorix, the Celtic chief who so nearly foiled Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul.
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Roger Quilliot Museum of Art
An excellent musée d'art (fine arts museum) within an architecturally exciting complex in Montferrand. Spread across six floors is a fascinating, chronologically arranged collection of sculpture, painting and art objects from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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Statue of Vercingétorix
Vercingétorix, chief of the Celtic Arverni tribe, almost foiled Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul. With most of Gaul overrun and Caesar slyly playing one tribe off against the other, Vercingétorix pulled together the tribes between the Loire and Garonne rivers and forged a force that could match the Roman legions in discipline.
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