Neussargues-Moissac

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Neussargues-Moissac
Commune
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Location of Neussargues-Moissac
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Coordinates: 45°07′45″N 2°58′37″E / 45.1292°N 2.9769°E / 45.1292; 2.9769
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Cantal
Arrondissement	Saint-Flour
Canton	Murat
Area 1	13.62 km2 (5.26 sq mi)
Highest elevation	1,022 m (3,353 ft)
Lowest elevation	738 m (2,421 ft)
Population  (2023)	824
• Density	60.5/km2 (157/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	15141 /15170
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Neussargues-Moissac (French pronunciation: [nøsaʁɡ mwasak]; Auvergnat: Nuçargues e Moissac) is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France. Between December 2016 and January 2025, it was part of Neussargues en Pinatelle.

Population

Sights

• Château St Benoît: owned by the family of Olivier Messiaen's first wife, Claire Delbos. Messiaen worked on L'Ascension there.
• Castle Marguerite (Villa ou Château Marguerite): 19th-century building.
• The Valley of Alagnon
• Villa Marguerite: late 19th-century French mansion.

The river Alagnon is a tributary of the Allier.

Personalities

• Olivier Messiaen
• Claire Delbos, violinist, first wife of the composer Olivier Messiaen.

See also

• Communes of the Cantal department

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Neussargues-Moissac.

• (in French) about Mr. Maurice Guibal Murat at the end of the 19th century: a city, a mayor, a newspaper by Jean-Louis Philippart
• (in English) http://www.neussargues-moissac.fr/gb_patrimoine.htm
• (in English) Volcano Park of Auvergne on the UNEP-WCMC site
• Infography about Olivier Messiaen Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
• (in French) Albepierre-Bredons

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