Limoges
www.ville-limoges.fr
Colors of a city
We imagined for you a discovery tour which will enable you
to understand and appreciate the city. To organize your
stay in Limoges, we invite you to visit the official
Tourist Office of Limoges (click on the above link).
You will find there any information you need to prepare
your stay: a travel map, accommodations (hotels, B&B,
apartments, camping…), restaurants and week-end suggestions
to invite you to stay.
On this site you will also discover the rich heritage of
the city, the gallo-roman city, former capital of
Lemovices, hosting ruins of the Crypt of Saint martial,
where was developed during middle age an important
pilgrimage and a rich abbey, heart of polyphonic music and
champlevé enamels workshops sold all over Christian western
world. It also hosted a center of remarkable manuscripts.
Still alive, the chinaware know-how to renew its forms and
its decorations as testify visibly some charming
contemporary models in many shops of the town center and
stores of factory. Of its industrial past related to the
chinaware, Limoges preserved a chinaware furnace, and
numerous architectural ceramics decorating the frontage of
town houses. Remarkable old pieces are exposed in the
national museum of A. Dubouché chinaware.
The architecture of the end of the XIX century and the XX
century gives the image of a city turned towards the future
thanks to the use of new materials such as: metal for the
Market hall (1878), concrete for the Benedictines' railway
station (1929) or glass and steel for ESTER-technopolis
(1993), the Francophone multimedia library (1998) and the
Zenith (2007).
The Tourist Board endeavors to make you discover all the
facets of the city: its history and its know-how in the
field of enamel and chinaware thanks to guided tours, play
grounds, creative visit, without forgetting a gastronomy
tour inside the city.
