Champagne-Sheep

Champagne-Sheep ( Champanha-Molton in Occitan) is a common French, located in the department of the Charente and the area Poitou-Charentes.

Geography

The commune of Champagne-Sheep is located halfway between Ruffec and Confolens.

The commune still profits from several services and public equipment, thus ensuring the perenniality of its development:

an elementary school
an elementary school
a college
an old people's home
a post office
an office of the Treasury
a gendarmerie squad
a barracks of the firemen
Two football stadiums (including one approved for the regional competitions)
a plate omnisport
a general-purpose gymnasium
a tennis court
a rock of climbing (in the enclosure of the college)
Of the arranged tracks of climbing (on the viaduct of St Gervais)
a small room of the festivals, said " room of the amicale" , in the past equipped for film projection.
a big room of the festivals, being able to accommodate big demonstrations.
Of many hiking trails, entirely marked out.
a true communal public service, where private subcontracting is minimized (distribution network of water, maintenance of the ways and paths, roadway system…)

Champagne-sheep profits from many remarkable places among which appear above all; (indicative, nonexhaustive list)

the Viaduct (direction St Gervais, currently equipped for the climbing) (free access)

the castle of the borough (unfortunately disfigured by several constructions comtemporaines) (impossible visits, private properties)
the laundrette of the borough (recently renovated, ideal place spade-to screw quietly) (free access)

the gate of the Church (free access, in the specific schedules for the interior of the Church)

All the 7 of the month, the fair is held on the place of the old markets.
the market, as for him, is present on the place of the castle nonnon-working Tuesday and Fridays.

DUJARDIN V., MOINOT E., OURRY Y. (2007) - Confolentais, between Poitou, Charente and the Limousin , Images of the inheritance, n° 243, Epic editions, 2007.

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