Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches
Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches Sent Sepieri |
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region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
Department | Corrèze | |
Arrondissement | Ussel | |
Canton | Haute-Dordogne | |
Community association | Haute-Corrèze Communauté | |
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
- ↑ Entry no. PA00099854 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Web links
- Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches on annuaire-mairie.fr