Ambazac
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Haute-Vienne | |
| Arrondissement | Limoges | |
| Canton | Ambazac (main town) | |
| Community association | Élan Limousin Avenir Nature | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 57 ' N , 1 ° 24' E | |
| height | 243-666 m | |
| surface | 57.83 km 2 | |
| Residents | 5,667 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 98 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 87240 | |
| INSEE code | 87002 | |
| Website | www.mairie-ambazac.fr | |
 Ambazac Town Hall |
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Ambazac is a French village with 5667 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Haute-Vienne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Limoges and is the capital of the canton of Ambazac .
Ambazac is located in the Monts d'Ambazac, about 21 kilometers from Limoges .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 |
| Residents | 3,655 | 3,767 | 3,929 | 4,657 | 4,889 | 5,178 | 5,445 |
Attractions
- Church (12th & mbsp; century) with the reliquary of St. Stephen of Muret
- Dolmen du Bois de la Lieue
- Château de Montméry (19th century); parts of the film Lady Chatterley , which was awarded five Césars in 2007 , were shot here
- Château de Ribagnac (14th century)
- medieval mills of Nouailles
- Celtic oppidum called "Camp de César"
- Ponds of the monks of Grandmont
Town twinning
Ambazac has a partnership with the German market town of Eckental in Bavaria .
Personalities
- Molière (1622–1673) had the idea for "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac" in Ambazac
- Raymond de Sèze (1748–1828), lawyer and member of the Académie française , defender of Louis XVI.
- Charles Gounod (1818–1893) composed part of the opera Faust here
- Arsène Lejeune (1866–1938), architect
- Albert Besson (1896–1965), doctor and member of the Académie nationale de Médecine , edited his main work in Ambazac
- Maurice Boitel (1919–2007), painter, worked in Ambazac from 1947 to 1996
- Catherine Cesarsky (* 1943), astrophysicist working in Germany and President of the International Astronomical Union , was born in Ambazac
- Izis (1911–1980), photographer, found refuge in Ambazac during World War II.
Web links
Commons : Ambazac - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ambazac website ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
