Aubazine or Obazine? As Bernadette Barrière (a medieval historian who contributed enormously to the historical discovery of Aubazine) indicated, "Obazine" is the ancient spelling, which corresponds to the simple translation of the Latin term Obazina proposed by medieval texts. "Aubazine" is a spelling that appears in competition with the previous one from the 16th century onwards. This small rural commune was a high place of monastic life in Corrèze and preserves an exceptional architectural and landscape heritage. Perched on a plateau, halfway up the slope of the valley and the drop of the plateaux of the middle Corrèze, the site of Aubazine, at 300 m altitude, is a modest elongated promontory, well exposed, protected from northern influences by a line of wooded heights, but itself dominating a vast landscape with a highly contrasting relief and in which is embedded among other watercourses, the torrent of Coyroux. It was in the 12th century that the hermit Etienne, a native of Xaintrie, had two monasteries built there, one for his male disciples, the other reserved for female disciples, located in the Coyroux valley. Both were affiliated to the Cistercian order in 1147, according to the will of their founder. Sites accessible by hiking trails offer remarkable views over the Coyroux and Corrèze valleys and the Brive basin: the site of the Calvary, the dolmen of La Roche-Bergère and the megaliths of Puy de Pauliac.www.vallee-dordogne.com

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