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Location & Local Info
Nearest airport: Limoges (50km).
Nearest train station: Le Dorat (3km).
Nearest town: Le Dorat (3km).
Nearest port: Calais (650km).
Le Dorat has one of the most important 12th Century Romanesque churches in the region, the Collegiale de St. Pierre and the only fortified gate of the period in the Limousin. It also has a wide range of shops, a supermarket, bars, restaurants, a weekly market and a Limoges porcelain factory outlet store.
Oradour sur Glane, (45kms): A moving memorial to the atrocity of war in this preserved ruin of an entire village after the massacre of June 10th 1944.
Montmorrilion (25kms) is an interesting medieval city and one of eight communities in Europe specialising in the publishing and associated crafts connected with books.
Limoges (55kms): A fusion of two cities until the French Revolution it has an interesting collection of historical buildings and churches. There is a wide range of specialist shops, outlets from all the major porcelain producers and a diverse choice of restaurants.
Sports: Horseriding – available within 12kms, Kayaking centre – on the Gartempe river, 12 kms.