Travel Guide Corrèze (City)

County town of canton on the riverside that gave it its name: Corrèze sur Corrèze in Corrèze. It is only in the 9th century that one finds mention of this village. It belonged to various religious orders and depended on the vicarage of Bar. Corrèze became a freed town in the 15th century. In the 16th century it was completely enclosed and pierced by three gates with a parapet walk and two towers that defended it. The church, rebuilt several times, dates from the 15th century. It has powerful buttresses, an English bell tower and a magnificent altarpiece commissioned in 1689 from the master sculptor of Gourdon and completed in 1714. Not far from the cemetery, the Chapel of the White Penitents was built in 1763 and named "Temple of Reason" during the Revolution in 1789. It is only open to visitors on Heritage Days in September. The city has preserved the remains of its ramparts which underwent their last assaults in the 16th century. The Porte Margot, the gateway to the city, was once owned by the Ventadour family and Catherine de Medici. A protective ditch still visible and its "cagadours", toilets of yesteryear that gave directly onto it, as well as the current rue Jean-Baptiste-Chaise, wider than the others, which received the town's waste water, are all traces of Corrèze's medieval past. Scallops planted on the facades of several houses are a reminder that the village is located on the road to Compostela