Discover the Butcher's district (Quartier de la Boucherie)
Chapel of Saint Aurélien: built by the Butcher's Guild in 1471
The traditional butcher's shop (La Maison Traditionnelle du Boucher): small museum presenting the history of the butcher's trade.
Les Halles (covered market) was inspired by the machine hall of the 1878 World Fair and was built in...
1st day:
Leave Limoges and head towards Saint-Junien, which is a town specialising in leather gloves and goods.
Oradour-sur-Glane. On 10th June 1944, Oradour-sur-Glane lived through the horror of a war crime: "a company of the Waffen SS killed 642 inhabitants and razed the village," - the martyred village stands as a testimony for the conscience of the world....
2nd day:
On the road to the Lac de Vassivière and the land of "Art and History" and "Mountains and Dams":
Mont Gargan (731 m) dominates the whole area;
Eymoutiers is a town with character, possessing a collegiate church with remarkable 15th century stained-glass windows, and the "Paul Rebeyrolle" Centre, where the most important works of this great...