Lioux-les-Monges

General information

Lioux-les-Monges is a common French, located in the department of the Creuse and the area the Limousin.

Geography

Lioux-les-Monges is a very small commune sitée in the south-east of the department.

History

Lioux-les-Monges means Lion-the-Moniales, because of the nuns bénédictines of Beaumont (Puy-de-Dôme), of which Lioux raised completely and which had in this places a priory in which lived five to six nuns of the abbey, detached here to manage these possessions of the monastery.

Administration

|- | align=right| March 2001 - 2008 |||| Mrs Claude Fonty || ||

Demography

It is one of the lowest population densities of the department with 5 habitants/km ²

Places and monuments

Church with bell-tower wall built with 10th and 11th century, was remanièe at the 14th century

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Hollow the

External bonds

Lioux-les-Monges on the site of the national geographical Institute
Lioux-les-Monges on the site of INSEE
Lioux-les-Monges on the site of Quid
Localization of Lioux-les-Monges on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Lioux-les-Monges on Mapquest

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