Peyrelevade

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Peyrelevade
Peira Levada
Peyrelevade (France)
Peyrelevade
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Corrèze
Arrondissement Ussel
Canton Plateau de Millevaches
Community association Haute-Corrèze Communauté
Coordinates 45 ° 42 '  N , 2 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 42 '  N , 2 ° 3'  E
height 674-951 m
surface 66.43 km 2
Residents 850 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 13 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 19290
INSEE code 19164
Website peyrelevade.correze.net

Peyrelevade ( Peira Levada in Occitan ) is a French municipality with 850 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Correze in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The inhabitants call themselves the Peyrelevadois (es).

geography

Peyrelevade is the northernmost municipality in the Corrèze department. It is located in the Massif Central on the Plateau de Millevaches and therefore also in the Millevaches en Limousin Regional Nature Park .

Tulle , the prefecture of the department, is about 70 kilometers southwest, Égletons about 40 kilometers southwest and Ussel about 35 kilometers southeast.

Neighboring municipalities of Peyrelevade are Gentioux-Pigerolles in the north, Féniers in the northeast, Saint-Setiers in the east, Millevaches in the southeast, Saint-Merd-les-Oussines in the south, Tarnac in the southwest and Faux-la-Montagne in the west.

The place is on the right bank of the upper course of the Vienne .

traffic

The place is about 35 kilometers northwest of exit 23 of the A89 autoroute .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
Residents 1040 1181 1418 1119 1012 829 831 860

Attractions

Chapelle du advice
  • The chapel Chapelle du Rat , a religious building from the 17th century, built on a hill in a natural rock formation. The building has been classified as a Monument historique since 1927 . Not far from there you have a beautiful view of the Plateau de Gentioux .
  • The Saint-Pierre church , a sacred building from the 13th century.
  • Several monumental crosses from the 13th to 16th centuries.
  • Two old bridges over the Vienne from the 17th and 19th centuries.
  • Remains of an old fortification from the 12th century.

Web links

Commons : Peyrelevade (Corrèze)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Les communes du PNR de Millevaches en Limousin (PDF; 124 kB)
  2. ↑ http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/HTML/IVR74/IA00030118/index.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/HTML/IVR74/IA00030099/index.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/merimee_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_1=INSEE&VALUE_1=19164
  5. ↑ http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/HTML/IVR74/IA00030119/index.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/HTML/IVR74/IA00030117/index.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/HTML/IVR74/IA00030111/index.htm