Lac d'Aydat

Lac d'Aydat
Location	Aydat, Puy-de-Dôme
Coordinates	45°39′50″N 2°59′04″E / 45.663996°N 2.984505°E
Basin countries	France
Surface area	0.65 km^2 (0.25 sq mi)
Max. depth	15 m (49 ft)
Surface elevation	837 m (2,746 ft)

Lac d'Aydat is a lake in Aydat, Puy-de-Dôme, France. At an elevation of 837 m, its surface area is 0.65 km². It is suggested by some historians that it is the site of Avitacum, the location of the villa belonging to the fifth-century senator and bishop Sidonius Apollinaris, as described in detail in one of his letters.^[1]

References

1. Epistulae II.2 as discussed in C. E. Stevens (1933) Sidonius Apollinaris and his Age Oxford: Clarendon Press, Appendix B, p. 185.