Vazeilles-Limandre

Vazeilles-Limandre is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Loire and the area Auvergne.

Geography

Vazeilles-Limandre is a small village of Haute-Loire (43), located at a score of kilometers in the North-West of the Puy-en-Velay and about thirty kilometers in the south-east of Brioude.

History

The first written document mentioning Vazeilles is Cartulaire de Brioude. It presents Vazeilles like a " villa" depending on the " vicairie" of Paulien Saint. It is into 969.

Administration

Demography

Economy

Agriculture, breeding, tourism are the main activities present.

The commune of Vazeilles Limandre is located in zone AOC of the green lens AOC of Puy in Velay.

Places and monuments

Church of XII-XIIIème century

Mentioned since 1252 like " priory of Saint Pierre of Vazeilles" , it with elegance and tons them of the Southerner and poses a note of color on the village with its red tiles and its polychrome stones.

House of Happy the

The village, like many villages of the High Loire, sheltered a house of the Béate or assembled.

Walks

For the walkers, many footpaths, furrow the area. In Vazeilles-Limandre, PR473 and PR474 cross the village to join the GR40. They will make you discover splendid landscapes, wood of pines of a single color and panoramas exceptional with 1000 meters of altitude which offer a sight on the unit of the mounts of Velay, and, beyond the peaks, on Auvergne.

Low, in let us tons indefinable between the green and blue, one distinguishes the basin from Puy in Velay.

In clear weather, one can contemplate at the bottom of the horizon, the mounts of Dauphine and the chain of Mont Blanc.

Marsh of limagne

The village is located at 6 kilometers of the marsh of Limagne (located on the commune of Siaugues Saintes Marie) which constitutes one of the most remarkable sites of Haute-Loire. Site of an exceptional ecological richness, the marsh of Limagne is offered to the visitor a such broad wound in the plate of Devès. This spectacle is explained by the volcanic origin of the place. The marsh of Limagne indeed developed in what is called a crater of maar, volcano born of the explosive meeting between an increase of magma and a sheet of water. A vast peat bog occupies the funds of the depression indeed. Several protected spaces at the national level can be observed there. However, better is worth to avoid penetrating there, the behavior of the floating rafts being particularly precarious. It is preferable to survey the path of discovery arranged with its circumference which will present the local inheritance to you and this, without danger.

Compostelle

The village is located at 13 kilometers of the Via Podiensis of the Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle and can thus be used as point of stage.

Local life

The festival of the village takes place the first weekend of August.

Practical life

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Haute-Loire

External bonds

Internet site of Vazeilles-Limandre
Vazeilles-Limandre on the site of the national geographical Institute
Vazeilles-Limandre on the site of INSEE
Vazeilles-Limandre on the site of Quid
Localization of Vazeilles-Limandre on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Vazeilles-Limandre on Mapquest

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