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Wild and beautiful, you will absolutly love
this area who has been too unaccounted-for.
The must-see places:
Aubusson, Felletin, Bourganeuf, Evaux-les-bains, Benevent
l'abbaye, Guéret, la
Souterraine, Chambon-sur-Voueize, Boussac, Fresselines, Crozant... Beautiful
and luminous is the valley of Creuse.
Under the influence of Georges
Sand, several painters from the movement « pleinairiste »,
would be inspired by its wild charm and its light:
Ernest
Hareux, Gaston Vuillier, Allan Osterlind.... Later with the poet Maurice
Rollinat, will come the « impressionistes » as Claude
Monet, Armand Guillaumin, etc...
Then several artists like Léon
Detroy, Paul Madeline, Eugène
Alluaud,etc..
Then, will come the school
of Crozant whose present leader is Gaston Thiery.
A must-visit: the Chabrières forests, stone-studded by strange rocks
who inspired several legends.
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Surface: 5606 km² - 124 470 inhabitants - Capital: Guéret |
MUSEES
Musée d'art et d'archéologie de Guéret , 23 avenue de la
Sénatorerie- 23000 Guéret-
tel: 05 55 52 07 20
Musée départemental de la tapisserie, avenue des lissiers-23200
Aubusson
tel: 05 55 83 08 30
Musée Rural Berry , 16 rue Gustave Gibard- 23 600 Boussac -
tel: 05 55 65 86 94
Musée de l'électrification-L'eau et la lumière, 19 route
de la Cascade, 23400 Bourganeuf
tel: 05 55 64 26 26
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