Fontanières (; ) is a commune in the

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department in the

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in central

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village and a couple of hamlets situated some northeast of Aubusson, at the junction of the D24, D25 and the D996 roads. The commune has an eastern border with the department of

Allier Allier ( , , ; ) is a Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region that borders Cher (department), Cher to the west, Nièvre to the north, Saône-et-Loire and Loire (department), Loire to the east, Pu ...

and is served by a

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railway.

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* The nineteenth-century church of Notre-Dame. * A château in ruins at Salvert.

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