Lestards

Lestards Lestaurs
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Corrèze
Arrondissement	Grommet
Canton	Plateau de Millevaches
Community association	Vézère-Monédières-Millesources
Coordinates	45 ° 31 '  N , 1 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 31 '  N , 1 ° 52'  E
height	518-894 m
surface	18.52 km 2
Residents	106 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	6 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	19170
INSEE code	19112
Town hall and Saint-Martial church

Lestards ( Lestaurs in Occitan ) is a French municipality with 106 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Correze in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .

geography

The municipality is located in the Massif Central on the Plateau de Millevaches and thus also in the Millevaches en Limousin Regional Nature Park and is traversed by the Alembre , a left tributary of the Vézère .

Tulle , the prefecture of the department, is about 37 kilometers slightly southwest, Égletons about 22 kilometers southeast and Ussel about 50 kilometers east.

Neighboring municipalities of Lestards are Saint-Hilaire-les-Courbes in the north, Viam in the northeast, Gourdon-Murat in the east, Pradines in the southeast and Treignac in the west.

The Lac de Viam is about ten kilometers north of Lestards.

traffic

The place is about 25 kilometers northwest of exit 22 of the A89 autoroute .

history

Around 1300 there was a commander of the Antonite Order in Lestards. The coming ones took care of health care in the region.

coat of arms

Description : The coat of arms is quartered , fields 1 and 4 in silver a torn green deciduous tree with red fruits above each three red stars as bars ; in fields 2 and 3 a silver tower in blue.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007	2016
Residents	123	139	116	92	106	101	110	105

Attractions

Saint-Martial church

• The Saint-Martial church , a Romanesque sacred building from the 12th and 13th centuries, modified in the 15th and 16th centuries, has been classified as a Monument historique since March 10, 1998 .

Web links

Commons : Lestards  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lestards on annuaire-mairie.fr
• Lestards on the website of the community association
• Lestards on lacorreze.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Les communes du PNR de Millevaches en Limousin ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 124 kB) 
2. ↑ Entry no. PA19000005 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)