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Meymac
Meymac (; oc, Maismac) is a commune in the department of Corrèze, in central France. History During the Hundred Years' War it was pillaged by Rodrigo de Villandrando. Geography The commune lies just south of the Millevaches Plateau and northwest of the Cantal mountains. The Luzège has its source in the northern part of the commune; it flows south through the middle of the commune and crosses the town. The Triouzoune forms most of the commune's eastern boundary. Meymac station has rail connections to Limoges, Brive-la-Gaillarde, Ussel and Bordeaux. Population Sights * Arboretum du Puy Chabrol * Douglaseraie des Farges * Mont Bessou viewing tower See also *Communes of the Corrèze department *Raymond Couvègnes Raymond Couvègnes (1893–1985) was a French sculptor and medallist. Biography Raymond Couvègnes was born in Ermont on 27 February 1893 and died in Paris on 15 December 1985. His father was Emile Couvègnes, a director of the "Compagnie des c ... Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mont Bessou Viewing Tower
The Mont Bessou viewing tower is a purpose-built panoramic tower, north of the town of Meymac in the Corrèze department of the Limousin (region) of France Location The tower is situated in the Forest of Mirambel, on the raised south-eastern edge of the Plateau de Millevaches. It is set in an area of woodland belonging jointly to the department of Corrèze and the commune of Meymac, at an altitude of approximately 1000 metres. It overlooks and affords wide vistas across the lower area between the plateau and the Cantal mountains. Both the town of Meymac and the more distant and larger town of Ussel, Corrèze, Ussel are easily visible. History The tower was planned on the initiative of the departmental and regional councils. The consulting architect was François Bonnin. It was opened on 17 June 2005. Construction The construction of the tower was deliberately planned as a bringing together of modern design and traditional local materials. It is built of Douglas fir, braced with ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meymac Station
Meymac is a railway station in Meymac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The station is located on the Le Palais - Eygurande-Merlines and Tulle - Meymac railway lines. The station is served by Intercités (long distance) and TER Ter or TER may refer to: Places * River Ter, in Essex, England * Ter (river), in Catalonia * Ter (department), a region in France * Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy * Ter, Ljubno, a settlement in the Municipality of Ljubno ob S ... (local) services operated by the SNCF. Train services The following services currently call at Meymac: TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine, accessed 14 April 2022. *local service (TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine) Bordeaux - Brive-la-Gaillarde - Tulle - Ussel *local service (TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine) Limoges - U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plateau De Millevaches
220px, Plateau de Millevaches The Plateau de Millevaches (; oc, Replanat de Miuvachas) is an upland area in Limousin a former administrative region of France. It covers approximately 3,500 km² and crosses the boundaries of three French departments: Corrèze, Creuse, and Haute-Vienne. The majority of the area is at an altitude of between 600 m and 1000 m. Structure and geology Although commonly referred to as a plateau, the Millevaches Massif is actually more like a shallow dome, deeply dissected by streams and rivers, and slightly tilted, with the south-eastern edge elevated and more exposed. This is the visible remnant of a laccolith, a large lens-shaped mass of granite, believed to be the result of an intrusion of igneous material in the late Hercynian or Variscan orogeny.Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France; May 2004; v. 175; no. 3; p. 239-248; As the surrounding, softer material has weathered away, the laccolith has become increasingly exposed. Although n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luzège
The Luzège (; oc, Luseja) is a long river in the Corrèze ''département'', south-central France. Its source is on the Plateau de Millevaches, in Meymac, north-northwest of the town. It flows generally south. It is a right tributary of the Dordogne, into which it flows just to the south of Laval-sur-Luzège. Communes along its course This list is ordered from source to mouth: Meymac, Combressol, Maussac, Darnets, Palisse, Lamazière-Basse, Moustier-Ventadour, Saint-Hilaire-Foissac, Lapleau, Saint-Pantaléon-de-Lapleau, Soursac, Laval-sur-Luzège Laval-sur-Luzège (, literally ''Laval on Luzège''; oc, La Val) is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France. Geography The Luzège forms the commune's eastern boundary, then flows into the Dordogne, which forms the commune's so ... References Rivers of France Rivers of Corrèze Rivers of Nouvelle-Aquitaine {{France-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haute-Corrèze Communauté
Haute-Corrèze Communauté is a ''communauté de communes'', an intercommunal structure, in the Corrèze and Creuse departments, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, central France. It was created in January 2017 by the merger of the former communautés de communes Ussel - Meymac - Haute-Corrèze, Pays d'Eygurande, Gorges de la Haute-Dordogne, Val et Plateaux Bortois, Sources de la Creuse and part of Bugeat - Sornac - Millevaches au Cœur. 15 September 2016, p 43 Its area is 1815.6 km2, and its population was 33,330 in 2018.Comparateur de territoire INSEE, acce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triouzoune
The Triouzoune ( oc, Triusona) is a long river in the Corrèze ''département'', south-central France. Its source is on the Plateau de Millevaches, north of ''la Rigaudie'', a hamlet in Saint-Sulpice-les-Bois. It flows generally south-southeast. It is a right tributary of the Dordogne into which it flows between Neuvic and Sérandon. Communes along its course This list is ordered from source to mouth: Saint-Sulpice-les-Bois, Saint-Germain-Lavolps, Meymac, Alleyrat, Saint-Angel, Valiergues, Palisse, Neuvic, Liginiac Liginiac (; oc, Liginhac) is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France. Geography The Triouzoune forms most of the commune's western boundary. Population See also *Communes of the Corrèze department The following is a list ..., Sérandon References Rivers of France Rivers of Corrèze Rivers of Nouvelle-Aquitaine {{France-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arboretum Du Puy Chabrol
The Arboretum du Puy Chabrol (38 hectares) is an arboretum located near the community of Barsanges, northwest of Meymac, Corrèze, Limousin, France. The arboretum was created between World War I and World War II by Marius Vazeilles (1881-1973), a naturalist and forestry expert. It contains approximately 400 exotic species. See also * List of botanical gardens in France This list of botanical gardens in France is intended to contain all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in France. Ain * Arboretum de Cormoranche sur Saône, Cormoranche-sur-Saône * Parc botanique de la Teyssonnière, Buellas Aisne ... References * Marius Vazeilles, ''Le Plateau de Millevaches: Historique de sa mise en valeur'', Conférence faite à la cérémonie de remise des insignes d'Officier de la Légion d'Honneur le 29 mars 1958. Eyboulet, Ussel, 17 pages, 1958. Contains a two-page map of the Arboretum du Puy Chabrol. * Gilbert Pons, ''Le paysage: sauvegarde et création'', Editions Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Couvègnes
Raymond Couvègnes (1893–1985) was a French sculptor and medallist. Biography Raymond Couvègnes was born in Ermont on 27 February 1893 and died in Paris on 15 December 1985. His father was Emile Couvègnes, a director of the "Compagnie des chemin de fer du Nord" and a military historian. He showed an early talent for design and attended the École d'arts appliqués Bernard Palissy before enrolling at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He studied under Injalbert and in 1927 won the Prix de Rome for sculpture. His early works involved sculptural work which arose in the reconstruction of churches and town halls in Northern France where so much damaged had been sustained in the 1914–1918 war. Examples of such work involved Montdidier town hall and churches in Roye, Arvillers, Moreuil, Le Bosquel and Athies. For the most part he worked using moulded concrete (béton moulé). In his next phase his works were executed in limestone or stone including in Paris a bust o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of The Corrèze Department
The following is a list of the 279 communes of the Corrèze department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):BANATIC Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 3 July 2020. * * *CC |
Rodrigo De Villandrando
Rodrigo de Villandrando (died c. 1457) was a Spanish routier from Castile and mercenary military leader in Gascony during the final phase of the Hundred Years' War. He was famous for his pillaging and was consequently known as the Emperor of Pillagers (''empereur des brigands'') or L'Écorcheur (the flayer). Originally from Biscay, he was the son of Pedro de Villandrando and Agnes de Corral. He became count of Ribaldo and Valladolid. Around 1410 he arrived in France and was admitted into the company of Amaury de Séverac. He rose to become captain of the routiers, veritable mercenaries in the pay of the seneschal or various other powerful lords and even bishops. When his protector Amaury died in 1427, he entered the service of Charles VII of France. In 1428 he was joined by Juan Salazar, who became his lieutenant. In his early career he is known to have pillaged Treignac, Meymac, and Tulle. On 11 June 1430 he participated in the Battle of Anthon with around 400 men armed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglaseraie Des Farges
''Douglaseraie des Farges'' is a French state-owned forest of ten hectares located in Meymac, Corrèze. ''Douglaseraie des Farges'' was planted in 1895 with ''Pseudotsuga menziesii'' (Coast Douglas-fir ''Pseudotsuga menziesii'' var. ''menziesii'', commonly known as Coast Douglas-fir, Pacific Douglas-fir, Oregon pine, or Douglas spruce, is an evergreen conifer native to western North America from west-central British Columbia, Canada southward t ...). These trees can reach heights of up to 50 metres (164 ft.) and a canopy volume up to 15 m³ (530 ft³). They have measured ten trees; the highest ones were 56 m (184 ft.) with a diameter of 1.04 m (3.4 ft.): *circumference from 3.7 m (12 ft.) to 3.79 m (12.5 ft.). *diameter from 0.97 m (3.1 ft.) to 1.17 m (3.8 ft.). *height from 43.4 m (142.4 ft.) to 56.80 m (186.3 ft.). External links *https://web.archive.org/web/20091008140815/http://www.meymac.fr/meymac-la-douglaseraie-des-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of Corrèze
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision, and typically share responsibilities and property. This way of life is sometimes characterized as an "alternative lifestyle". Intentional communities can be seen as social experiments or communal experiments. The multitude of intentional communities includes collective households, cohousing communities, coliving, ecovillages, monasteries, survivalist retreats, kibbutzim, hutterites, ashrams, and housing cooperatives. History Ashrams are likely the earliest intentional communities founded around 1500 BCE, while Buddhist monasteries appeared around 500 BCE. Pythagoras founded an intellectual vegetarian commune in about 525 BCE in southern Italy. Hundreds of modern intentional communities were formed across Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
