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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
Jean-Paul
Denanot and
Michel Sapin,
presidents of the
Limousin and
Centre conseil
régionals
respectively,
signed an
agreement in
Châteauroux (36
- Indre) on July
16 comitting both
regions, to the
proposed TGV
link to
the area.
From
December 9,
daily services
leaving from
Brive will link
Limoges,
Vierzon and
Châteauroux to
Roissy and
Lille.
The train line is not
equipped to suuport trains at
high speed, so the trains
themselves will not run at
their usual speeds which
exceed 300 km/h. Instead,
they will move at just over
160km/h – the average speed
of traditional trains.
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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
When a round tower pierced by arrow-slits was added to Uzerche’s church to
ward off the English in the 14th century, no one ever imagined that the
marauding masses would later reappear as part of the town’s staple diet of
tourism. Roger Steptoe goes to see what’s happened six centuries on.
Travel writer Arthur Young had Uzerche
neatly summed up back in 1787: “The
streets have a singular beauty riveting
our feet to the ground.” Known as the ‘Pearl
of the Limousin’ with ‘Non Polluta’ inscribed
on its coat-of-arms, Uzerche has been a
commercial and administrative centre since
the sixth century.
From the 11th to 13th centuries, life
revolved around the Benedictine monastery,
the imposing abbey church of Saint-Pierre
being the last vestige of this bygone age. In
the 17th and 18th centuries, the town made
the most of its crossroads location and
expanded as a thriving trading post, being
granted ‘royal’ status. Then, little by little,
modern transport and infrastructures
infiltrated the hallowed terraces of one of the
noblest towns in the Limousin.
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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
For the last few months some 40 artists in and around
Argentat in the south of the Corrèze have been busy
painting, potting, glazing and coming up with some
interesting new artistic creations. The fruits of their winter
labours can be seen this month in a tour of 30 studios, each
participating in the 2007 Parcours des Arts.
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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
For four nights in late August, Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto’, based on
the novel by Victor Hugo, is coming to the Corrèze. This
at the Château de Sédières, as part of this year’s
Sédières Festival.
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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
The old part of the tiny village of Le
Chalard is hidden on the D901,
between Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche and
Châlus in the southern Haute-Vienne.
The abbey is a gem and dates back
to 1088.
But there are no monks there today,
except those in the famous cemetery. It’s
privately owned and the La Tour family
opens the doors this month for a festival
of music, theatre and storytelling
presented by artists of the highest order.
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