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Ussel

Office de Tourisme d'Ussel et ses cantons Place Voltaire 19200 Ussel (Corrèze)

Phone : 05 55 72 11 50 - Fax : 05 55 72 54 44

“Chabatz d' Entrar”

Installed on one of the last buttresses of the Plate of Millevaches, between the two hills of Chabanne and Garenne, crossed by two rivers Diège and Sarsonne, Ussel is a pleasant city where the visitor finds all the advantages of modern civilization without his disadvantages.

But it is also rich of a very old past.

The vestiges of the Neolithic period, of the age of bronze, the age of iron, the presence of the Celtic people of Lémovices (oppidum of Charlat) which probably gave its name to the city, (UCH' EL high place), of the Roman period or USCHELLUM is a vicus on the Hadrienne way, of times mérovingiens, where Ussel is a castrum, reveal the importance of the site of Ussel, crossroads of communications to the borders of Auvergne and the Limousin.

This situation is confirmed when a junior by Ventadour is established in Ussel of which it takes the name.

The city is strengthened and knows a long period of disorders, war One hundred Year old, plunderings, destruction. The situation improves at the end of the 16th century.

Ussel is a seneschalsy and becomes naturally after the Revolution the place chief of the district.

The construction of the RN89 to the Restoration, the arrival of the railroad and the construction of the deposit at the end of 19th S. as well as the installation of factories give an important rise to the city.

Of its past, Ussel preserved remarkable monuments of which the visit and the anecdotes which accompany it make us closer to our ancestors and allow us to better include/understand them.

But Ussel is also inserted in the modern life.

The activities of leisures are numerous, fishing, drives out, horsemanship, excursions, tennis, water sports, as well as the cultural activityc(ap)s, various museums, concerts, theatre, spectacles.