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Country
  
France

Department
  
Creuse

Intercommunality
  
Aubusson-Felletin

Area
  
13.74 km²

Arrondissement
  
Aubusson, Creuse

Region
  
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Canton
  
Felletin

Population (2008)
  
1,866

Local time
  
Friday 4:38 PM

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Weather
  
16°C, Wind NE at 13 km/h, 54% Humidity

Felletin is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.

Contents

Map of 23500 Felletin, France

Geography

An area of lakes and streams, forestry and farming comprising a small town and several villages and hamlets situated by the banks of the Creuse River just 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Aubusson at the junction of the D10, D19, D23 and the D982 roads. The commune is served by a TER railway and is within the national park of the Millevaches (not 1000 cows, but lakes).

Sights

  • The twelfth-century church.
  • Three chapels from the fifteenth century.
  • The church of Notre-Dame, from the fifteenth century.
  • Two dolmens.
  • A thirteenth-century castle and later ramparts
  • The present and previous mairies, both dating from the eighteenth century.
  • Several ancient houses.
  • A medieval bridge over the Creuse.
  • A thirteenth-century octagonal monument in the cemetery.

    • Personalities

  • Fernand de Brinon, French wartime Nazi collaborator, b. 26th Aug 1885, executed 15 April 1947, was buried at Felletin.

    • International relations

    Felletin is twinned with:

  • Schladming, Austria, since 1960.

    • References

    Felletin Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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