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Turenne
The name of this locality was that of a viscounty that formed for centuries a veritable small sovereign state. Of this past remain, in the upper town, the remains of the three enclosures and a square keep that protected the castle. The latter was in fact dismantled at the time of the viscounty's attachment to the French Crown, and only two towers remain, one of which, the Tour de César, dates from the thirteenth century.
In the streets paved with irregular pebbles, the recessed houses gather around small squares. Rich limestone buildings lean against the fortress. Mansions flanked by turrets and pepper-pot towers date from the fifteenth century. In addition to the many fine old dwellings, the village keeps two religious monuments: the sixteenth-century collegiate church and the seventeenth-century Capuchin chapel.
