limousin

VILLAGES, A CERTAIN IDEA OF HAPPINESS
The "most beautiful villages of France", in Limousin, there are seven of them. Magic places where one would like to put his suitcases a few days, to meet friends at the terrace of a café, to have a house. All is simple there and beautiful, even time would like to stop there.
COLLONGES-LA-ROUGE is red of its likings, blue of its roofing stones, green of its vines: this adorable village offers a fabulous show, to make fade, of desire the commonplaces...
In this small paradise in Technicolor, the world is perceived through the nostalgia, which, here, is always what it was without car, without distributor of tickets, without billboard, without humming... Collonges knows, with joy how to slow down time. 05 55 25 32 25
CUREMONTE Which fly pricked the great families of this village, which made build three castles side by side Perched on its peak, this "village-street" always imposes with its aristocratic skyscrapers, its fortifications, its noble houses with turrets, its churches with the wall paintings, a work of inspired graffiti sprayer, and its gardens... From this rocky outcrop, Curemonte offers an unspoilable view on the corrézian countryside. 05 55 25 32 25
MORTEMART This small Limousian Vatican ashore God knows how in pagan earth didn't count less than three convents in the XIVth century.. This This monkish devotion left us a village of character where one can fill the tank with products of the soil, stories, legends and meetings. 05 55 68 12 79
SAINT-ROBERT, outside day: lanes, alleys, ramparts, terraces, wood pigeons and half-timberings. Natural decoration: in background canvas, the valley of Puys. Freeze on a picture at the borders of Limousin and Périgord. One hour halt, one day or always, on the traces of the heroes of Claude Michelet, the research of wasted time, the simple joys and the familiar pleasures. Saint-Robert is a real village of cinema. Silence: one admires!. 05 55 25 21 01
IN SEGUR-LE-CHÂTEAU, point of countess, but a complete panoply for small girls models in love of romantic of very old noble houses, of frame works, of mullioned windows , of stones that sing, of towers where, certainly, princesses lived captive... Strong like a rock, imperious like a wise child caprice, Ségur coiled in a fair loop of Auvézère. 05 55 73 39 92
TREIGNAC Three doors, three castles, three suburbs... On a small air of accordion, the waltz of Monédières rhythm lthe ife of Treignac. When the wind blows from the moor its bilberry perfume, cherishing the thin slate of the roofs, the ways of the upper town become animated. Wine glass, village holiday, ground of heather: that it is good to be put at the green and to let go up in oneself the song of the world. At its feet: Vézère, from where embark the boldest to face its tumultuous floods. 05 55 98 15 04
TURENNE Conquests, alliances, treasons... the glory and the beauty of Turenne resound of cruel echoes, but also of murmurs and silences which guarantee to it, today, a saving quietude. Turenne will deliver its secrets only to the deserving visitors, who will traverse on foot its narrow streets bordered of old home, before climbing the slope which carries out to the ruins of the castle for, finally, to pose his glance on an impregnable point of view. 05 55 24 08 80
AND OTHERS WHICH ARE WORTH MORE THAN ONE DETOUR:
In Corrèze: Argentat, Aubazine, Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, Bort-les-Orgues, Corrèze, Ussel, Uzerche, Vigeois.
In Creuse: Aubussan, Bénévent-l' Abbey, Crocq, Crozant, Souterraine, Masgot, Moutier-d’ Ahun. In High-Vienna: Châlus, Eymoutiers, Chalard, Dorat, Rochechouart, Saint-Léonard, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Solignac...

TOWN OF FIRE, STRONG CITY& DISTRICT
LIMOGES
FIRE & ARTS
Thanks to fire, Limoges overcame the matter. Porcelain and enamels make its fame throughout the world. The luxury is a know-how here. Porcelain factory, enamel workshops, museums and stores of factory will open their doors to you on their most beautiful parts. Unless you did not prefer the visit of the district of the bridges, that of the cathedral, that of the butchers or these small places with half-timberings which punctuate the relief of this city built around the joy Mount. Picturesque festivals like the Small Bellies, international Festival like the Francophonies, National Dramatic Centers, Orchestres and famous musical Sets... animate this great agglomeration of more than 20 0000 inhabitants. From troglodytic Limoges which traverses the city thanks to its network of undergrounds to Ester-technopolis where high tech companies settle you will travel in a city which always has crowned fire. 05 55 34 46 87
AUBUSSON
WOOLS & GREENERY
Capital of the Tapestry, Aubusson is known in the largest museums of the world for its "greenery". This small city at the edges of Creuse, however remains discrete and authentic. Since six centuries, it would seem that nothing changed in the alleys, the workshops and the old residences. It is only today that the smoothers work for the great contemporary artists, that the departmental Museum of the Tapestry exposes priceless masterpieces and that an intense cultural activity animates this city.From galleries to workshops while passing by the house of the old tapestry maker, you will appreciate its old streets which the Tower of the clock dominates. 05 55 66 12 12
SAINT-JUNIEN
THE WATER & THE SAINTS
It is the water which made of Saint-Junien its reason to be industrial. At the XIXth century, paper mills and tanneries multiplied along Vienna which borders the city. Out of the paper mill, today, there remains only the largest and most modern industrial complex of Europe established in Saillat. The glovers city as it is called knew to preserve some workshops which work leather for the high-sewing. And the tumults of Glane, at the Corot site, always make the amazement of all, whether they are painters or walkers. Every seven years, the principal street of Saint-Junien is transformed into a gigantic forest for the ostensions. The relics of the hermits Junien and Amand are walked there among a crowd of of supporters and more than 1500 observers. This city is incredible! 05 55 02 17 93
BRIVE
FEATHERS & RUGBY
The strong city is famous for its fairs and markets for a long time. George Brassens made a song of it. Today, its fatty fairs attract the gourmets and its Fair of the Book joins together the most beautiful feathers of the Parisian edition under its market. Brive even saw creating its literary school: dedication! But it is necessary to venture in the old districts that are very alive and commercial and being at the same time a flirtatious and cordial provincial town. Provincial, it is not less than a capital: capital of Rugby with its CAB, black and white, whose "bulls" make tremble all the lawns of South-west and England. Nevertheless, do not forget its tower of the Aldermen, its Labenche Museum, its distillings and, of course, its market. 05 55 24 08 80
TULLE
ACCORDIONS & OLD LACES
At the bottom of a steepsided valley, Tulle, the medieval one, walk its lanes along its precipice slopes. A rich architectural heritage justifies that one surveys its staircases which irrigate the city. At the Museum of the Cloister you will find all the specialities which made the Tulle glory: the weapons with its manufacture of State,the lace with its famous "poinct" and finally the accordions. At the Maugein house, it is the contemporary Renaissance of this instrument; with the festival of the nights of mother-of-pearl in September, Tulle is Mecca of all the lovers of the accordion. 0 05 55 26 59 61
GUÉRET
STONES & ATMOSPHERE
Cut in a sober and perfect granite, Guéret is the cradle of the builders of Paris. These Creusian masons, famous on the hausmanian building sites, left their print in its streets. Marcel Jouhandeau, took as a starting point the the atmosphere of his birthplace to put it in scene, to stigmatize it and describe its through in his works. It is necessary to venture in the old Guéret, to push the door of the museum of Sénatorie and to sit down in Bonnyaud square to bore subtleties of this city that Marcel Jouhandeau had elected "capital of his imagination". 05 55 52 14 29