Lanouaille

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GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION		CLOSEST TOWNS
Town	Lanouaille	Angoisse at 4.7 km (5 min)
Insee code	24227	Dussac at 5.5 km (6 min)
Postcode	24270	Payzac at 7.1 km (8 min)
Latitude	45.3921760	Preyssac-d'Excideuil at 7.7 km (8 min)
Longitude	1.1392110	Savignac-Lédrier at 8.4 km (10 min)
Altitude	From 198 to 342 meters	Saint-Mesmin at 10.1 km (12 min)
Surface	23.78 km²	Saint-Médard-d'Excideuil at 10.1 km (10 min)
Population	988 inhabitants	Anlhiac at 10.3 km (10 min)
Density	42 inhabitants/km²	Sarlande at 10.6 km (11 min)
National label		Clermont-d'Excideuil at 11 km (13 min)
Chief town	Périgueux (at 46 km, 49 min)	Excideuil at 11.4 km (11 min)
Department	Dordogne	Saint-Sulpice-d'Excideuil at 12.1 km (13 min)
Region	Aquitaine	Search another town

LOCATION

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TOWN PRESENTATION

Located northeast of Dordogne, near the Limousin Lanouaille is a town of a thousand township residents with police, emergency center, college, sports hall, nursery and primary schools soon library and nursing homes. Its space is looking ballroom every weekend by the score of associations leading the village but also for special family events. He entered the circle of villages with three flowers in bloom and a service area for campers.

With 10 other municipalities, Lanouaille is part of the Community of Communes Lanouaille country.

Lanouaille was born Hugh Gerald Beaulieu (fourteenth century), bishop of Cahors, Jean Baptiste Darnet (eighteenth century), discoverer of the kaolin which has made the fortune of Limoges porcelain and grow Thomas Robert Bugeaud (nineteenth century), soldier-farmer, revolutionizing Agriculture and ending his military career as a marshal of France.

Economic development is generated by the latter that must be an old drinking fountains, the area of Piacenza, which was its experimental farm and the castle of the Durant that he had built when he received his marshal's baton . These two sites, private, not open to visitors.

SIGHTSEEING

The town also has some beautiful 19th century houses showing a bourgeois past. The neo-Gothic church (XIX), rebuilt on medieval foundations with bell tower and pinnacles to 3 storeys, contains a Via Crucis cast signed Val d'Osne and interesting stained glass windows. It sometimes hosts concerts.

Located on Route de la Pomme du Limousin, the Maison de la Pomme d'Or is a place for discovery of cultural and economic eternal fruit. It is not only dedicated to this fruit that ripens in the fall in the apple orchards but in general the result of childhood memories, myths at the heart of all creation, small and grand narratives. She has been awarded the full Tourism and Handicap. It houses the reception desk of the Office of Community Tourism. It is open all year and especially by appointment for groups.

The surrounding hamlets, sometimes punctuated with a mansion (The Landysses, Plagne, Beaulieu), together with robust farms built of local slate, with sloping roofs, typical habitat Limousin.

Cross intersection and laundries have been respected and restored.

Detailed information
Information points	Tourist Office of Lanouaille

EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS

Lanouaille is designed to welcome its three traditional festivals (Easter Parade, celebrates the first Sunday in August, the feast of agriculture and agricultural meeting in late October), markets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month and the small farmer's market on Saturday mornings throughout the year.

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