Lignac

Lignac is a common French, located in the department of the Indre and the area Center.

Geography

Lignac, fact part of the Department of Indre which has as a prefecture the town of Chateauroux. Located in the center of France at an altitude of 160 meters this commune extends on a surface of more than 6500 hectares.

Festivals

  • employers' Festival last Sunday of July with fun fair, secondhand trade, procession, etc

  • Festival of Guillaume castle first Sunday of October
  • Gone of Christmas the 24 and on November 25th, 2007 with Castle-Guillaume (savors of the soil, decoration and gifts, craftsmen of art, writers and painters regional, inn of the téléthon, living room of the, crepes, walk in carriole, visit exceptional of the keep and with its terrace. Traditional mass, country meal, tales of Christmas, Sunday)

History of Lignac

The powerful fortress of Castle-Guillaume was high between 1087 and 1112 per Guillaume IX, duke of Aquitaine. Given to the 13th century in Trémoille, it passed successively to the hands of various families; ruined at the 18th century, it was restored in 1880. Castle-Guillaume was joined together in Lignac in 1829 (old parish and commune). The parish concerned the abbey of Saint-Savin formerly. Chief town of canton to the Revolution.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • Remainders of a castle 16th century in the borough.
  • Guillaume Castle 12th century, transformed at the 13th century/16th century (historic building), restored 19th century: vast enclosure in the shape of trapezoid flanked of 4 turns of angle rounds to machicolation, square central keep with buttresses 12th/14th with covered way on machicolation; park of 2,5 ha.
  • Church Saint-Christophe 12th century/15th century, mainly rebuilt 19th century.
  • Church of Castle-Guillaume 13th century: table of Guillaume saint 18th.
  • Banks of Allemette.
  • Small valley of Vavret.
  • Ponds of the Rock-Chevreux, Foot of Ember, Valette, Thuolet, Bineau.
  • wooded Site

Personalities related to the commune

The actor of telefilms Bernard Lecoq passed the major part of his childhood in the village of the Furnace to Lignac.

See too

  • Common of Indre

External bonds

  • Lignac on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Lignac on the site of INSEE
  • Lignac on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Lignac on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Lignac on Mapquest
  • Old photographs of Lignac

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