limousin

LIMOUSIN, BLUE LIKE ITS LAKES, GREEN LIKE ITS NATURE, RED LIKE ITS COWS, WHITE LIKE ITS PORCELAIN, GRAY LIKE ITS GRANITE, YELLOW LIKE the GOLD OF ITS TREASURES, PURPLE LIKE ITS HEATHER... YOU Y WILL BE WELL!

IN LIMOUSIN BREATHE THE AIR, THE GREAT AIR!
Go through the mounts and the vaults, with unforgettable landscapes in the valleys of legend. Plunge in its fresh water lakes. Get carried away by its treasures. Have a stopover in the most beautiful villages of France. At three hours from Paris or Toulouse, by the A20 motorway, you are in Limousin.There is no time shift, but a true expatriation. A concentrate of nature in a country of character that is authentic and still savage. Meanwhile ,it is a country of thousand and one pleasures which make the true holidays. In the pages which follow we give you some tracks to explore this astonishing country to discover the greatness of nature. to soon!

LIMOUSIN, ALLTHE MORNINGS OF THE WORLD...
The sun rises on lakes which one could believe Italian or Scottish according to the season. In the horizon, forests equip the mounts and involve us in a Scandinavian summer. In autumn, they make us travel to Canada. In the bottom in the valley, a village at the edge of water runs quiet days under the sun of the "Riviera". Up there on the wild plate, of the singing springs animate landscapes of lost paradise. You are Limousin and this multiple country invites you to a voyage in full nature.

THE LANDSCAPES MADE COME HERE MONET, COROT AND THE OTHERS,
Attracted by the light, water, nature, the points of view... Limousin inspired to these great masters some of their greatest paintings. Today, these sites, these valleys and this countryside always attract the amateurs.
Roads, ways or paths carry them out, as in a gigantic exhibition, towards masterpieces. A privilege of one moment, one season or a lighting these natural "pictures" are worth all the museums of the world.

UNDER THE LANDSCAPES: THE BEACH... AND FRESH WATER !
Water is everywhere in Limousin. It made large lakes, real inland seas, like Bort-les-Orgues, Vassière, Saint-Pardoux or the Lake of Causse. Small seaside resorts or arranged sites of leisures are numerous in this country in addition to lakes, ponds or rivers which offer the pleasures of the beach in full country.. Heat of sand, Shade of the surrounding forests, fresh waters and nautical leisures make of these places oases of holidays.

A PARADISE FOR THE FISHERMEN
11 000 Kilometers of rivers of first category, 5 000 hectares of lakes, thousands of ponds, a festival of fishing roosters in Neuvic and Pontarion... Limousin is a unique corner of fishing in France. Trouts fario, shades, carps, pikes or pike perches abound in this country where the fishermen will be able to succumb to all piscatorial temptations.

SPORTING RIVERS
Dordogne, Vézère, Auvézère, Vienna or Creuse hide, under their apparent calm running and tumultuous waters. The lovers of canoe and other amateurs of watery rodeos like to test themselves along these rivers in fury which are also the theatre of international competitions.

LIMOUSIN: A GIGANTIC NATURAL RESERVE
Imposing sites, original and protected ecological environments, men who know how to live intelligently with nature are as many reasons to discover this country. Six thousand kilometers of excursion, nearly thousand kilometers of equestrian tracks, plate of Millevaches, here are some of the thousand and one manners of meeting the real nature of this area made up of three departments of character: Corrèze, Creuse and High-Vienna .
"This country is a garden! "
Clement, landscape designer-creator of the" moving garden "and the" Planetary garden "in Paris, is an unconditional of Limousin. This country rocked his childhood and made him discover the largest of all the gardeners: nature. It is here that he cultivates his garden when he does not traverse the world to carry out his projects.
Giant ferns, like the royal osmunds, the carnivorous droseras, bilberries, girolles or boletus make also this country an extraordinary garden to explore and enjoy.
Stroll by the mounts and by the vaults
On foot, on horseback or on VTT, the mounts of Limousin astonish the lovers of nature by their colors, as those of Monédières whose purple one of the heather spices the blue of the sky, by their ways, as those of the mounts of Blond which walk of megaliths in places of legends, by their remarkable forests as those which populate the mounts of Ambazac.
COUNTRY OF THE THOUSAND SPRINGS AND THE THOUSAND PONDS
In Limousin, water created exceptional natural environments. The pond of the moors, in Creuse, is a single academy where one observes an original flora resulting from this preserved environment. It is also a privileged place for the otters, the crimson herons or ospreys fishers. Many peat bogs, like those of Dauges or Longeyroux, make discover a strange and attractive world that is populated with carnivorous plants, lizards "antifreeze" or of species of dragonflies "relics" of the ice era
REGIONAL NATURAL RESERVE PERIGORD-LIMOUSIN
In the Western south of Limousin and the North of Aquitaine, in full country of the chestnuts, the Regional Natural reserve Périord-Limousin (05 53 60 34 65) lives at the rhythm of its natural and cultural partner: villages, castles, mills, feuillardiers, etc.
SO THAT THE RARE WOLVES AND BIRDS LIVE
In the mounts of Guéret, the wolves elected residence in an animalist park of 12 hectares which is entirely devoted to them. A unique opportunity to observe and discover this mythical animal. In the sky: milans black, falcons tippets, varied buzzards and other harriers find in Limousin marvellous territories of hunting. In Combes, in the mounts of Ambazac, one watches for these funny birds as well as the migrating ones which make stage in the area.
COWS ARE SACRED
Filling the green of the meadows with their red mahogany dress, these "Limousines" are the proud of this cattle-rearing area. It is necessary to see these virtuosos of idleness, to majestically enjoy the pleasures of a prolonged nap in the shade of a clump of trees to think that this country is really made for the holidays.