Limousin
Haute-Vienne
Arrondissement of Limoges

Limoges

Limoges is a historic city in the region of France. A City of Art and History since 2008, the city has no shortage of must-see attractions. If you didn't arrive by train, you should still visit the Gare des Bénédictins, considered by many to be the city's flagship and one of its major landmarks.
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  • Type: City with 130,000 residents
  • Description: commune in Haute-Vienne, France
  • Also known as: “Lemòtges”, “Limages”, and “Limòtges”
  • Postal codes: 87000, 87000, 87100, 87100, 87280, and 87280

Places of Interest

Highlights include Limoges-Bénédictins station and Limoges Cathedral.

Railway station
Photo: Patrick Nouhailler’s…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Limoges-Bénédictins is the main railway station of Limoges. It is situated on the Orléans–Montauban railway. It was named Bénédictins due to the presence of a Benedictine monastery closed during the French Revolution.

Church
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is a Roman Catholic church located in Limoges, . it became part of the new administrative region of , in 2016.

Museum
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The is a French national museum dedicated to Limoges porcelain and the history of ceramics. Founded in 1845 and located in Limoges, it is part of the Sèvres – Cité de la céramique public establishment.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Cité and L’Abbessaille.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Limoges

Latitude
45.8354° or 45° 50′ 8″ north
Longitude
1.2645° or 1° 15′ 52″ east
Population
130,000
Elevation
309 metres (1,014 feet)
IATA airport code
LIG
United Nations Location Code
FR LIG
Open location code
8FQ3R7P7+5Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26686524
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2998286
Wiki­data ID
Q45656
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Limoges” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Limoges”
  • Afrikaans: “Limoges”
  • Albanian: “Limoges”
  • Arabic: “ليموج”
  • Arabic: “مدينة ليموج”
  • Aragonese: “Lemotges”
  • Aragonese: “Lemòtges”
  • Aragonese: “Limoches”
  • Aragonese: “Limoges”
  • Aragonese: “Limotges”
  • Aragonese: “Limòtges”
  • Armenian: “Limoges”
  • Armenian: “Լիմոժ”
  • Arpitan: “Limog·es”
  • Arpitan: “Limojo”
  • Arpitan: “Limozho”
  • Asturian: “Limoges”
  • Azerbaijani: “Limoj”
  • Bambara: “Limoges”
  • Basque: “Limoges”
  • Basque: “Limòtges”
  • Bavarian: “Limoges”
  • Belarusian: “Лімож”
  • Bengali: “লিমোজ”
  • Breton: “Lemojez”
  • Breton: “Limoges”
  • Breton: “Limojez”
  • Buginese: “Limoges”
  • Bulgarian: “Лимож”
  • Cajun French: “Limoges”
  • Catalan: “Augustoritum”
  • Catalan: “Limoges”
  • Catalan: “Llemotges”
  • Cebuano: “Limoges”
  • Central Kurdish: “لیمۆژ”
  • Chechen: “Лимож”
  • Chinese: “利摩日”
  • Chinese: “里摩日”
  • Chinese: “里蒙”
  • Chuvash: “Лимож”
  • Corsican: “Limoges”
  • Croatian: “Limoges”
  • Czech: “Limoges”
  • Danish: “Limoges”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Limoges”
  • Dutch: “Limoges”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليموج”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليموچ”
  • Esperanto: “Limoges”
  • Esperanto: “Limoĝo”
  • Estonian: “Limoges”
  • Faroese: “Limoges”
  • Finnish: “Limoges”
  • French: “Espace urbain de Limoges”
  • French: “Limoge”
  • French: “Limoges”
  • French: “Limòtges”
  • Friulian: “Limoges”
  • Galician: “Limoges”
  • Georgian: “ლიმოჟი”
  • German: “Limoges”
  • German: “Limòtges”
  • Greek: “Λιμόζ”
  • Gujarati: “લિમોઝ”
  • Hausa: “Limoges”
  • Hebrew: “לימוז‘”
  • Hebrew: “לימוז’”
  • Hebrew: “לימוז”
  • Hindi: “लिमोज”
  • Hindi: “लिमौज”
  • Hungarian: “Limoges”
  • Icelandic: “Limoges”
  • Ido: “Limoges”
  • Indonesian: “Limoges”
  • Indonesian: “Limotges”
  • Indonesian: “Limòtges”
  • Interlingua: “Limoges”
  • Interlingue: “Limoges”
  • Irish: “Limoges”
  • Italian: “Limoges”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Limoges”
  • Japanese: “リモージュ”
  • Kabyle: “Limoges”
  • Kalaallisut: “Limoges”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಮೊಗ್ಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಮೋಝ್”
  • Kazakh: “Лимож”
  • Kongo: “Limoges”
  • Korean: “리모주”
  • Kotava: “Limoges”
  • Ladin: “Limoges”
  • Latin: “Augustoritum Lemovicum”
  • Latin: “Augustoritum”
  • Latin: “Lemovicae”
  • Latin: “Lemovicum”
  • Latvian: “Limoges”
  • Latvian: “Limotges”
  • Latvian: “Limòtges”
  • Latvian: “Limoža”
  • Ligurian: “Limoges”
  • Limburgan: “Limoges”
  • Lithuanian: “Limoges”
  • Lithuanian: “Limožas”
  • Lombard: “Limoges”
  • Low German: “Limoges”
  • Luxembourgish: “Limoges”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Limoges”
  • Macedonian: “Лимож”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Limoges”
  • Malagasy: “Limoges”
  • Malay: “Limoges”
  • Marathi: “लिमोज”
  • Mazanderani: “لیموژ”
  • Minangkabau: “Limoges”
  • Narom: “Limoges”
  • Neapolitan: “Limoges”
  • Northern Frisian: “Limoges”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Limoges”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Augustortium”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lemòtges”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Limoges”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Limòtges”
  • Norwegian: “Limoges”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lemòtges”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Limòtges”
  • Ossetian: “Лимож”
  • Papiamento: “Limoges”
  • Persian: “لیموژ”
  • Picard: “Limoges”
  • Piemontese: “Limoges”
  • Polish: “Limoges”
  • Portuguese: “Limoges”
  • Portuguese: “Limonges”
  • Prussian: “Limoges”
  • Romagnol: “Limoges”
  • Romanian: “Limoges”
  • Romansh: “Limoges”
  • Russian: “Limoges”
  • Russian: “Лимож”
  • Sardinian: “Limoges”
  • Scots: “Limoges”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Limoges”
  • Serbian: “Limoges”
  • Serbian: “Лимож”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Limoges”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Limož”
  • Sicilian: “Limoges”
  • Silesian: “Limoges”
  • Sinhala: “ලිමොග්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Limoges”
  • Slovenian: “Limoges”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیموژ”
  • Spanish: “Limoges”
  • Spanish: “Limòtges”
  • Swahili: “Limoges”
  • Swedish: “Limoges”
  • Swiss German: “Limoges”
  • Tamil: “லிமாஞ்செஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Лимож”
  • Telugu: “లిమోజ్”
  • Thai: “ลีมอฌ”
  • Tumbuka: “Limoges”
  • Turkish: “Limoges”
  • Twi: “Limoges”
  • Ukrainian: “Лімож”
  • Urdu: “لیموژ”
  • Uzbek: “Limoges”
  • Venetian: “Limoges”
  • Veps: “Limož”
  • Vietnamese: “Limoges”
  • Vlaams: “Limoges”
  • Volapük: “Limoges”
  • Walloon: “Limoges”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Limoges”
  • Welsh: “Limoges”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیموگے”
  • Wolof: “Limoges”
  • Wu Chinese: “利摩日”
  • Yue Chinese: “里蒙”
  • Zulu: “Limoges”
  • “Limoges”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Limoges”. Photo: Jean-Alexandre, CC BY-SA 3.0.