Limoges is a city and commune, and the prefecture of the Haute-Vienne department in west-central France. It was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region. Situated on the first western foothills of the Massif Central, Limoges is crossed by the river Vienne, of which it was originally the first ford crossing point.
Image: Centre ville et champ de Juillet
Image: Limoges Mairie
Image: Limoges st michel lions 2 (22378242672)
Image: Limoges cathedral gate st jean (21619267553)
Haute-Vienne is a département in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwest-central France. Named after the Vienne River, it is one of the twelve départements that together constitute Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The prefecture and largest city in the department is Limoges, the other towns in the department each having fewer than twenty thousand inhabitants. Haute-Vienne had a population of 372,359 in 2019.
Prefecture building in Limoges
Ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane
Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
Maisonnais-sur-Tardoire