Things to see and do Limousin

Thanks to a leaflet handed out by the Tourist Office you can walk along the narrow streets of the old town. At the entrance of the main street a museum relates the history of the city to that of the Viscount of Turenne allowing you to discover the secrets and wonders of this pretty market town. Rue du Commandant Charollais, the Courrèze house, the seat of the Viscount States in the 17th century, the Hall place (destroyed in 1952), the Vachon house with dovecote and decorated bays (formerly the house of the consuls of Turenne in the 16th and 17th centuries), the hotel Carbonnières of Louis XIII style with turret and watchtower… or even the Chapitre house, in rue Joseph Rouveyrol, remarkable for its flamboyant Gothic style door with pinnacles. Towards the hill, the Calvaire tower recalls the 3rd enclosure. The fortified gate leads to the 2nd house of the Sénéschal and the chapel of the Capucins (1643), hosting exhibitions. From the esplanade surrounding the limestone cliffs, you enjoy a superb view that you can take the time to admire, sitting on a bench.

You are here in one of the most beautiful villages in France, organized around a Benedictine monastery. Don't sulk your pleasure in strolling through its old streets and alleys where you will discover the seigneurial residences of the Dukes of Noailles, Verneuil and the Cars family, the castles and fortified houses built in blond limestone and covered with flat Perigordian tiles and Corrèze slates, mullioned windows, old walls decorated with succulent and flowering plants, and lovely gardens. Don't hesitate to go around the church to admire its chevet, its sculpted capitals, the lantern of the dead and the defensive square tower and to go to the end of the terrace: you will be rewarded by the vast view of the Yssandonnais and the Brive basin which is ideal for daydreaming. On the square there is a mission cross bearing all the instruments of the Passion of Christ. Go down below the village to the good fountain of Saint-Maurice, which according to the legend gives back beauty and vitality.

Par by proletarian monks, compagnons compagnons, renowned carpenters who know about the architecture of oriental influence developing in Spain on the roads of Fez, the abbey Saint-Barthélemy dates back to the th century. It is a building of Romanesque style, but we discover on the church the marks of the road to Santiago: the shell on capitals, symbols of the buddy and mozarabes characteristics. To the west the steeple is covered from a coupole dome and at the cross of the transept, a octagonal lantern is found. The portal west polylobé is five voussures in broken plot.