Discovering the nievre department

Discover cities and towns in the nievre department.

Discover chateau chinon  Chateau-Chinon is the town of François Mitterrand who remained 22 years mayor of the commune before being elected President of the Republic. In the middle of the Regional Natural reserve of Morvan in the department of Nievre.

Discover saint saulge  Saulge is only at 2h30 of Paris by the motorway, offering preserved space and nature. St Saulge and its area, it is calms it of its green forests, its meadows and its ponds which fill with enthusiasm the fishermen and the bathers by the quality and the purity of their water.

Discover the town of decize  Decize is the principal center of animation of the South-Resident of Nevers. With the doors of Morvan, the city is with 35 kms of Nevers and Mills, like to 30 kms of the road racing set of F1 of Magny-Course. The site of the city, in harmony with the surrounding countryside, is a rock island of the Loire. This position was worth an animated history to him, which durably marked its landscape. Decize and its surroundings constitute an important industrial pole with four principal fields of know-how (rubber, ceramics, aluminium and wood), as well as an active shopping centre. With the confluence of the Loire and Aron, with the junction of the Channel of the Resident of Nevers and Side Channel in the Loire, Decize is a true crossroads of inland waterways. The Nautical, contiguous Stage with the Camp-site, near to the swimming pool, at the edge of a vast water level, is an appreciated base of leisures of Decizois like tourists.

Discover nevers  Brood in the middle of Burgundy, the Center and Auvergne, Nevers, capital of Nievre, is located at 2 hours of Paris by A77. Culture envies? Nevers will astonish you by the richness by its inheritance. One discovers it in freedom while following the line blue or pulled by the comments of our guides lecturers. Envies of nature? The Loire which made it possible to the marines to make known the earthenware of Nevers will be your guide. By canoe, in traditional boat or strolling on the paths of discovery, come to the meeting from the “last wild river from Europe”.

An ancient thermal spa in pougues-les-eaux  Pougues-les-eaux, at two hours of Paris, is an old thermal spa attended by the Kings of France. Access: Motorway A 77, left n° 31 and 32 SNCF railway station  To see: Its thermal park, its center of contemporary art  Leisures: the Casino (100 machines with under, blackjack, swell, caster, spectacles), various sports.

Discover corbigny's history  Corbigny, in moved back times, could be used as halt with the Gallic tribes. One of it left us his cemetery under the current town hall. Times passed. Certain Corbon, governor of the country in VIIème century, based a “villa” on the heights. Rich person field where the owner, helped of his servants, held all that it was necessary to live in autarky. Corbon had a son, which abbot of Flavigny in Gold Coast, projected to found a priory, subsidiary of Flavigny. Talks in royal authorizations the foundations rise into 864 with a prior and twelve monks, it is the rule, and under the dependence of the abbot of Flavigny. Who says abbey says relics. One made some come from Touraine, or of Tournus, those of Léonard saint and Corbigny became Corbegni-the-Saint-Léonard. Some miracles occurring at point, the way of Compostelle, the pilgrims flowed. The houses built around the abbey were not enough any more. One crossed Anguison, beyond it was a marsh, one builds the substructions necessary, some houses of the centre town still have their foundation on pile. The city started to exist and thrive. Who says ease says competition. The large companies devastated, one had mesh to leave with the Armagnacs - Corbigny held for the Burgundian ones it was necessary to think of strengthening. Fourteen turns, five doors. What hardly impressed, in 1563, the Protestants. Until the end of the century and beyond, those held the top of the paving stone. People of knowing, enlightened, they formed all that counted the notable ones. These old times left us some beautiful residences. Meanwhile, the abbey become royal, passed under the mode of the abbots commandataires, it went from there thus until the Revolution. The last modification goes back to 1754. Thus with the length of the centuries, separated by Anguison, their fortifications of facing, the abbey and the city they heurs and misfortunes divided. Today, there are no more walls, the city is, alive always there. The abbey, like an old tired lady, contemplates some remainders of completed times: three massive towers, those of XVème, two rounds and square which have the air returned from all and, on the other side of water, have patience by thinking that all has an end.