HIGH VIENNA

At the middle of Limousin, High-Vienna invites you to succumbr, without reserve, to the bucolic pleasures, to enjoy natural space in all quietude,on foot, on horseback, or on bicycle. Let yourself be astonished by the too discrete charm of the small picturesque villages such: Mortemart, Blond, Chalard, Jabreilles-les-Bordes, Nedde, Saint Leger-la Montagne, Montrol-Sénard...
To idle about in High-Vienna is an inexhaustible source of discoveries, amazement. Walk in the area while following the roundnesses of the soft hills covered sometimes with heather, tender grass or leafy trees with the russet-red and gilded colors in autumn,which is a favourable season to the provisions of colors. Travel in time to the search of a past sometimes animated but always rich in events as the numerous buildings testify
You will be charmed by the beauty of the abbey and the collegiate of a Roman style that are remarkable by their sobriety like that of Dorat, of Solignac, of Saint Léonard-de-Noblat, Eymoutiers, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Saint-Junien. Several other Roman vaults, strengthened churches, castles and country house, imposing fortresses will be able to satisfy the curiosity of the visitor. During a halt, live at the rhythm of the men of this country, meet them, they will tell you past centuries epics,and will make you share their ancestral habits, their knowledge to make, and their difference...
The inns, with a family character, will welcome you cordially; taste the tasty local specialities: bovine meat of a limousin race, rolls with sweet chestnuts, potato pie, limousin potful, and to finish your heavy meal, rejoice with a delicious clafoutis especially at the season of cherries and to conclude this gastronomical tour, succumb to the refined and aromatic pleasures of sweet chestnut liquor glass. The amateurs of active holidays will be able to devote themselves to the pleasures of the water sports in Vassivière (+ than 1.000 ha) in a natural site of an exceptional quality or in Saint-Pardoux (300ha), station of tourism with a sporting vocation. In High-Vienna 20 stations of tourism: Bujaleuf, Saint Hilaire-the-Places, Ambazac, Nexon, Châteauneuf- la-forêt, Lauriére-Folles, the Lake of Mondon, ect... judiciously arranged are as many places of prediction for the amateurs of "beach and relaxation" or for the impassioned with sailboard, water skiing, canoe-kayak.

COME TO HAUTE-VIENNA
High-Vienna? A harbour of nature surrounding a metropolis of 200 000 inhabitants, Limoges, hinged plate of the Atlantic Center - West. You will be well accomodated there, invited to share simple or refined pleasures. It is up to you to leave to the discovery!

VIA THE ROAD
The motorway A 20 Occitane leads you directly in High-Vienna, cominging from Paris and Toulouse. Coming to the West of Nantes, La Rochelle or Bordeaux, or in the East of Dijon, Mâcon, Lyon or Geneva, take the Europe-Atlantic Centre road partly arranged in 2 X 2 ways. To that is added an interdepartemental road network of quality towards Périgord, Quercy, Auvergne, Berry and Poitou.

BY TRAIN
A dozen daily connections connect Limoges to Paris, Some at 2 hours and 50, in the near future at 2h 30.

By PLANE
The airport of Limoges-Bellegarde is served on Paris-Orly and Roissy-Chares-de-Gaulle (four daily connections), Lyon and Clermont-Ferrand. Correspondence for the big European capitals

The VILLAGES-STAGES
High-Vienna invented the concept of a village-stage. There are as many pleasant halts on the motorway, bringing all the services that the motorist of passage can expect. And as many invitations to go further in the discovery of the back-country. The old expression of reception "Chabatz d’ entrar", in occitan of Limousin, means "Finish entering".
While passing, on A 20, three peaceful village-stages await you. They are, from North towards the South, Bessines-on-Gartempe, Pierre-Buffière and Magnac-Borough. ...
In Limousin
Limousin is country of multiple talents. It is known, with Limoges, for the tennis shoe and the porcelain. It is known also as the soil of the bovine race which bears its name, whose meat is classified champion of the world by the gastronomes. The pole of Lanaud, whose buildings were designed by the architect Jean Nouvel, selects the best Limousin bovine reproducers. The Anglo-Arab horse, king of the race courses, is also born in Limousin ground. High-Viene, a leader department of the Area, is one of the whole first departments that produce sheep. Beyond this affirmed agricultural(and forest) vocation this country shines in the field of artisanal and industrial know-how: in addition to the porcelain, leather and the enamel count among its productions of top-of-the-range. The names of the hunter Weston, of the dressmaker Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, of the cook Madrange take part in its prestige. The Head office of Legrand, world leader of the switchgear, is in Limoges. The scientific and technological vocation of Limousin continues with ESTER Limoges technopolis and 3 schools of engineers. The University excels in ceramics, biotechnologies, optics, microwaves and water.