Allassac

Apart from the town the commune has the following hamlets:

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Le Saillent

In Latin aqua saliens meaning "leaping water". The name evokes the rapids and a cascade into a deep gorge. It was called ad illo Salente in 904.

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Place Allègre

The commune has a number of buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Ecole des Tours Manor (15th century)[9] houses a collection of 600 Roman and medieval weapons and armour as well as a forge for making weapons called "la Bombard" which was the last edge tool making activity in France
• The Tour de César (Caesar's Tower) (12th century)[10] with a height of 30 metres is all that is left of the ancient fortifications. It is made of slate and gneiss. The battlements were added in the 15th century. This is one of the few round towers from the Middle Ages in Limousin.
• The old Saillant Bridge over the Vézère (16th century)[11][12]

Other sites of interest

• The Chateau of Lasteyrie is a noble house from the 19th century at Saillant
• Le Saillant, a village traversed by the Vézère and shared between the communes of Allassac (The Saillant of Allassac left bank) and Voutezac (right bank).
• The Gorges and waterfalls of the Clan near the Three Villages
• The La Roche Site where Mesolithic rocks outcrop. It has an orientation table and offers a wide panorama of the Cirque du Saillant.
• At Garavet there is swimming and fishing in the Vézère

• The Church of the Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist (12th century). is registered as an historical monument.[13] The tower was fortified in the 14th century during the Hundred Years War. It has remarkable baroque furniture consisting of three altars and a pulpit. These were built by the Duhamel brothers around the year 1680. The central altarpiece (1679) is dedicated to the "sacred Heart of Jesus". That it depicts on one side Christ's Sacred Heart makes it exceptional as that devotion was activated only four years before the creation of the altar after the appearance of Christ to Margaret Mary Alacoque in Paray-le-Monial in 1675. The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
  • An Altar, Retable, and 3 Statues (17th century)[14]
  • An Eagle Lectern (17th century)[15]
  • The whole Main Altar assembly (1679)[16][17]
  • A Painting: Christ on the Cross (1869)[18][19][20]
  • 2 Statues: Saint John the Baptist and Saint Joseph (1679)[21]
  • A Group Sculpture: Virgin of Pity (15th century)[22]
  • A Pulpit (1681)[23]
• The Chapel of Saint-Férréol is from the 17th or 18th century and is partly in the cemetery in the village of La Chartroulle. The chapel contains two items that are registered as historical objects:
  • A Statue: Saint Ferréol (17th century)[24]
  • A Group Sculpture: Virgin of Pity (16th century)[25]
• The Chapel of Saint-Laurent from the 13th and 18th centuries in the village of Saint-Laurent has a gate opening directly onto the cemetery. The chapel contains three items that are registered as historical objects:
  • A Statue: Saint Laurent (15th century)[26]
  • A Statue: Crowned Virgin and child (17th century)[27]
  • A Statue on base: Saint Laurent (17th century)[28]
• The Chapel of Saint-Nicolas of Tolentine was built in 1894 in the village of Brochat. It contains three items that are registered as historical objects:
  • A Statue: Saint Nicolas of Tolentino (17th century)[29]
  • A Statuette: Virgin and child (15th century)[30]
  • A Group Sculpture: Virgin of Pity (1554)[31]
• The Chapel of Saint-Roch from the 16th and 19th centuries in the village of Gauch contains two items that are registered as historical objects:
  • A Group Sculpture: Saint Roch speaks to the rich (17th century)[32]
  • A Group Sculpture: Saint Roch speaks to the poor (17th century)[33]
• The Chapel of Saint-Marguerite was built in red sandstone from the 13th to the 18th century at the village of La Chapelle. It contains a Statue on base: Crowned Virgin and child (17th century) which is registered as an historical object.[34]

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  The César Tower
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  The Manor of Tours
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  The Church of Saint John the Baptist
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  The choir of the church
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  Detail of the choir:
  Saint Luke with the bull
  and the portrait of the Virgin
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  Stained Glass windows representing
  The Annunciation to Mary
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  The nave of the church,
  view towards the west portal
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  Detail of the south portal of the church
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  The Chapel of Saint-Nicolas of Tolentine
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  The interior of the chapel of Saint-Nicolas of Tolentine
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  The Chapel Sainte-Marguerite
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  The Chapel of Saint-Ferréol
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  The Chapel Saint-Roch
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  The interior of the Chapel Saint-Roch
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  The Chapel Saint-Laurent
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  The interior of the Chapel Saint-Laurent
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  The bridge of Saillant, on the right the two arches next to Allassac
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  Becs from the old bridge
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  Lasteyrie du Saillant Castle (a house from the 19th century)

• Jean-Louis Lascaux, Allassac in Bas-Limousin a country... a history, Allassac, 2006 (ISBN 9782952591904)
• Chanoine Blaise-Adolphe Marche, The past glory of Allassac and its five annexes, Brive, 1909 ; Paris, 2004