Polignac | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason famille Polignac.svg |
Arrondissement: | Le Puy-en-Velay |
Canton: | Le Puy-en-Velay-2 |
Intercommunality: | CA du Puy-en-Velay |
Mayor: | Jean-Paul Vigouroux[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Coordinates: | 45.0706°N 3.8603°W |
Elevation M: | 740 |
Elevation Min M: | 562 |
Elevation Max M: | 892 |
Area Km2: | 33.05 |
Insee: | 43152 |
Postal Code: | 43000 |
Image Flag: | Flag of Polignac.svg |
Polignac (pronounced as /fr/; oc|Panhac) is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association.
The town is dominated by the Forteresse de Polignac with its square donjon tower, 32 m tall. The Chateau de Lavoute Polignac is a few miles away, close to the village of Lavoute.
The poetical illustration "The Church at Polignac" by Letitia Elizabeth Landon to a painting by James Duffield Harding was written during the imprisonment of Prince Polignac and his colleagues, after the French Revolution of 1830 (in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837).[2]