Limeyrat

Limeyrat is a common French, located in the department of the the Dordogne and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

The commune of Limeyrat counts 442 inhabitants. From its geographical position, it is located on a geological fault. Landscape varied energy of the arid and stony slopes, on the south, rich and argillaceous ground, those of the Cretaceous, in north (causses of Jurassic) with the covered hills of chestnuts, pubescent oaks or coniferous tree.

The culminating point, in Chalard, is with 243 meters of altitude from where one can see, in clear weather, mounts of Auvergne. Very close, with the red Maison locality was undoubtedly a halt on a Roman way.

The old borough consists of some old houses gathered around the Romance church of XIIe century, with wall-belfry, dedicated to Saint-Hilaire. The gréco-bysantine influence appears through four beautiful capitals which decorate the main door. With the accesses of the church some vestiges of the castle are. The old cemetery bordered of a high dry stone wall also constitutes an architectural curiosity of character.

The Road of the Guns makes a short turning on the commune, this one however provided a great quantity of charcoal resulting in particular from the important main forest, primarily made up of oaks and charms.

You will be able, thanks to the footpaths, to discover Honed it Levada, stone lying gone back from thousand-year-old Ve and an undeniable scientific interest. Pretty small a borie holds company in this magic place to him where you will be able spade-to screw in all peace.

Remarkable and protected flora, a large variety of wild orchises can be observed but especially not gathered.

Many small rural buildings await you Limeyrat: stone cross, martyrdoms, points of water (fountains, laundrettes, well). Also notice the pretty vault deprived with the place says Pinolie, vestiges of furnaces intended for the factory of bricks and of tiles to the place Cournazac says.

The old careers were made famous for their stone to build having been used in particular for construction of the frontage of the Opéra of Paris, but also of the stone bridge with Bordeaux, of the steps of the law courts of Périgueux and of the cupolas of the Sacred Heart with Montmartre.

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Administration

Demography

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Personalities related to the commune

See too

External bonds

  • Tourist office Causses and Vézère

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

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