Clermont-Ferrand is a French city, located in the Auvergne administrative region, in the Puy-de-Dôme department, extending over the Limagne Valley in the centre of the mountain. Clermont-Ferrand is in the heart of the Volcanoes of Auvergne Nature Park, where we can stand out the Puy-de-Dôme, its most famous volcano.

The city was born from the union of two cities, Clermont and Montferrand in the reign of Louis XIII and it was confirmed by Louis XV. Then the region was named Clermont-Ferrand, the city with two cores, or the city with two centres.

Clermont dates back to antiquity and quickly assumes the nature of episcopal city. The earliest reference to Clermont's existence can be found in a work by Strabon, in the beginning of century I. The city was then named Nemossos and qualified as "metropolis" of Arvernes. In the middle of the century, it was renamed as Augustonemetum and lives a phase of expansion which ends during century III.

Montferrand was founded in the early twelfth century by the Counts of Auvergne according to the format of the new southern cities. When the two cities were united, Montferrand was no more than a satellite city of Clermont, and so it remained until the beginning of twentieth century. The new Clermont-Ferrand only arised with the construction of the Michelin factory and the city's gardens. Although currently the two cities are merged, there are in Clermont-Ferrand two distinct urban centres. It is important to note that in this city lives a relevant community of Portuguese descents.