Saint-Clément-de-Rivière

Saint-Clément-de-Rivière is a municipality located close to Montpellier, in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
Saint-Clément-de-Rivière is located at about 10 km north from Montpellier. The town has also common limits with several other municipalities: Les Matelles in the north, Prades-le-Lez in the east, Montferrier-sur-Lez in the south-east, Grabels in the south-west and finally Saint-Gély-du-Fesc in the west. The town is 8 km long from north to south, and its total surface is 12.7 km2. The part of the city near Montpellier welcomes a commercial complex called the shopping mall Trifontaine, with a big supermarket and other diversified shops. Saint-Clément-de-Rivière is still covered by a much forest, scrubland and also by crops, even if some areas are now ready to welcome new accommodation buildings and residences. The Saint Sauveur forest has for example seen the construction of the middle and high schools as well as a private hospital. The center of the town called Le Boulidou was designed by François Spoerry, architect of Port Grimaud too. It includes an area where inhabitants can find basic services and goods, such as a bakery, a hairdresser… and also a space with many private houses painted with Mediterranean colors. The river Le Lez has its source on the territory of Saint-Clément-de-Rivière, in the north, in the Saint Sauveur forest, and then continues its way through some villages and crosses the city of Montpellier to finally end in the Mediterranean Sea.

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