Visit of the Maison Domat, headquarters of the Association for Research on the Iron Age in Auvergne

Name: Visit of the Maison Domat, headquarters of the Association for Research on the Iron Age in Auvergne
Start: 2023-09-16T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Maison Domat

The house Domat is a private property located in the village of Mirefleurs. It is an old possession of Jean Domat (1625-1696), who received the personal papers of his friend Blaise Pascal (16...

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Guided tours of 1h30 (09h00; 10h30; 13h00 et 15h30)

Cliché : J. Jouannet, 2021

The house Domat is a private property located in the village of Mirefleurs. It is an old possession of Jean Domat (1625-1696), who received the personal papers of his friend Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), on the death of this one. The house has been listed since 2000 as a historical monument, notably because of the 225 lead-mine and blood-mine graffiti that adorn the building tower. The building is made available to the Association pour la Recherche sur l'Âge du Fer en Auvergne (ARAFA) as its headquarters. The visits, commented and in small groups, consist of a presentation of the Domat house and a presentation of the ARAFA.

About the location

Maison Domat

2 rue de la grande Chareyre 63730 Mirefleurs

Puy-de-Dôme
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

The Domat house is a private property located in the village of Mirefleurs. This is an old possession of Jean Domat (1625-1696), who received the personal papers of his friend Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), on his death. The house has been listed as a historic monument since 2000, especially because of the 225 graffiti at the lead mine and the blood that adorn the tower of the building. Some of them may represent Blaise Pascal.
The building is made available to the Association for Research on the Iron Age in Auvergne (ARAFA) as its headquarters, and has been used in particular to house teams of archaeologists.
The visits consist of a presentation of the Domat house and a presentation of the ARAFA.