Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches

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Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches
Sent Sepieri
Coat of arms of Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches
Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches (France)
Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Corrèze
Arrondissement Ussel
Canton Haute-Dordogne
Community association Haute-Corrèze Communauté
Coordinates 45 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 22'  E
height 545-760 m
surface 37.00 km 2
Residents 596 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 16 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 19200
INSEE code 19201

The Château de la Gane

Saint-Exupery-les-Roches ( Sent Sepieri in Occitan ) is a French municipality with 596 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Correze in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .

geography

The municipality is located in the Massif Central about ten kilometers west of the Dordogne not far from the Plateau de Millevaches and the Regional Nature Park Millevaches en Limousin . The Parisian meridian crosses the municipality.

Tulle , the prefecture of the department, is about 70 kilometers southwest, Ussel about 7 kilometers northwest and Bort-les-Orgues about 20 kilometers southwest.

Neighboring municipalities of Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches are Saint-Fréjoux in the north, Saint-Étienne-aux-Clos in the northeast, Saint-Bonnet-près-Bort in the east, Veyrières in the southeast, Saint-Victour in the south, Chirac-Bellevue in the Southwest, Mestes in the west and Ussel in the northwest.

traffic

The place is about 15 kilometers southwest of exit 24 of the A89 autoroute .

history

The largest wooden shoe factory in France produced here between 1873 and 1960.

coat of arms

Description : In gold, a red brick castle with black grooves with two outer towers and a higher central tower. On the tinned wall , two long-stemmed blue beards stand in stakes, pointing outwards. The red castle gate is locked.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
Residents 676 564 509 474 515 529 526 590

economy

The Ussel-Thalamy airfield , operated by the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Tulle et Ussel (Tulle and Ussel Chamber of Commerce and Industry), is located halfway to Ussel in the municipal areas of Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches and Saint -Bonnet-près-Bort.

Attractions

  • Church Saint-Exupère-et-Saint-Maurice , Romanesque sacred building from the 11th and 12th centuries
  • Château de la Gane , secular building from the 15th to 18th centuries, classified as a monument historique since December 26, 1980
  • Charlus-Le-Pailhoux castle ruins
  • Charlus-Chabanne castle ruins

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry no. PA00099854 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

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