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16 Founded in the 8th century, GREAT VIEW
Collonges came under the rule
Uzerche of Turenne, whose burghers Cable Car
built the turreted houses in the Since 1936 the cable car
! D5 ⌂ Corrèze £ @ surrounding vineyards. Look from Le Monts Dore has
n Pl de la Libération; www.
uzerche-tourisme.com out for the communal bread transported passengers
oven in the market place, and up to the Puy de Sancy,
Uzerche is an impressive sight: the 11th-century church, later the highest mountain in
the Massif Central. From
fortified with a tower keep.
grey slate roofs, turrets and
EXPERIENCE The Massif Central prosperous town never capitu- shows a man driving a bear, Now the sole remains of
the cable car station
bell towers rising from a hill
The church’s unusual carved
it’s a scenic climb to the
above the Vézère river. This
white limestone tympanum
summit, where fabulous
views await.
and other lively figures.
lated during the conflicts of
the Middle Ages, and earlier
withstood a seven-year siege
by Moorish forces in 732: the
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townspeople sent a feast out
the Château de Turenne
Turenne
are the 13th-century Clock
to their enemy – in fact, the
last of their supplies. The
Moors, thinking such lavish
Tower of Caesar, from which
n Brive-la-Gaillarde;
there is a quite spectacular
offerings meant the city had
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stores to spare, gave up. ! E5 ⌂ Corrèze £ @ Tower and 11th-century
360-degree view of the Cantal
The Romanesque Église Turenne is one of the most mountains across to the
St-Pierre crests the hill above appealing medieval towns in Dordogne Valley. Not far away
the town. Beyond Uzerche, the Corrèze. Crescent-shaped is Turenne’s 16th-century
the Vézère cuts through the and clustered on the cliff-side, collegiate church and the
green gorges of the Saillant. the town has lots of unspoiled unassuming Chapelle des
traditional Limousin houses. Capucins, which dates from
It was the last indepen dent the 18th century. This chapel
17 feudal fiefdom in France, under is closed to the public for
the absolute rule of the La Tour much of the year, but it
Collonges-la-Rouge d’Auvergne family until 1738. opens to host a series of
Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne, popular music concerts
! D5 ⌂ Corrèze £ Brive,
then bus to Collonges their most illustrious member, and temporary exhibitions
n Rue de la Barriere, was a mar shal of France each summer.
Collonges; under Louis XIV, and Château de Turenne
one of the great-
www.vallee-
dordogne.com est soldiers " # Apr–Oct: 10am–6pm
of modern daily (to 7pm Jul-Aug)
There is times. ∑ chateau-turenne.com
some thing quite
un settling about
Collonges’ carmine
sandstone archi-
tecture, beautiful
in individual
houses, though
the overall effect
is both austere
and fairy-
tale-like.

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