Limoges holiday manor house accommodation, Chalus with walking, air con, gym, internet access, telephone, rural retreat, TV, DVD

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Maison Bella Vista (manor house)

Home description

The villa is situated in the picturesque medieval town Chalus of some 1800 inhabitants, and has easy access to all amenities, and excellent restaurants for eating out, all shops, supermarket, post-office,bank, baker, butcher, hairdresser, are two minutes walk away, but the house is very private, surrounded by a big wall.

There are a few km. to the famous casle Montbron, which has been restored fantastic beautifully by Mm. Marteen Larmers, and it is open for visitors.

The villa has its own private swimming pool, and garden. It is in the Parc Natural Perigord/Limousin area. This area offers everything for all age and all tastes, fishing, walking, horse riding, golf, canoe, cycleing.

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The Limousin / Auvergne / Haute-Vienne region

Make a getaway to the Limousin and plunge into the most lush vacation destination you could imagine - a land of trees, water and pure, clean air, from the rolling countryside of the Haute Vienne to the rugged terrain of the Ambazac hills.

This traditional French heartland has largely escaped the growth of tourism and has an air of tranquillity. The region attracts visitors in search of unspoiled countryside. You can choose peaceful picnic spots and bathing or dynamic watersports in and around the crystal clear waters.

Visit Limoges, famous for its porcelain, test your skill at Le Labyrinth, the world’s largest maze or take to a hot air balloon and admire it all from above.

Richard Coeur de Lion
Richard the Lionheart came to the English throne in 1189 having inherited lands in France through his mother - Eleanor of Aquitaine. He and the King of France were allies in the Crusades but Richard later went to war with the King and local barons over lands in the region.

Follow his ‘route’ - a well sign-posted 180km - along a line of fortified towns, chateaux and castles marking episodes in his campaigns. Directions take you along quiet roads through delightful, unspoil Limousin countryside, stopping at places such as the fortified Chateau of Coussac-Bonneval, and Chateau Feodal Chalus where Richard received a mortal wound from an arrow.

Oradour-sur-Glane
On Saturday the 10th of June 1944, the small town of in the Haute-Vienne Department of France was destroyed. The attack was carried out by soldiers of the Der Führer Regiment of the 2nd Waffen-SS Panzer Division Das Reich. On that day they killed a total of 642 men, women and children without giving any reasons for their actions and to this day there is no universally accepted explanation for the massacre. You can visit the site of the village which remains in the same state today as a memorial to those who died and to remind us of the horror that man can inflict.

Limoges / Chalus area

Founded by the Romans, Vesunna (Périgueux) has been the centre of the Dordogne region for over 2,000 years. Take in views of the old town and ruined amphitheatre from Tour Mataguerre and Cathedrale St-Front, said to have been the inspiration for the Sacre-Coeur in Paris. The tiny squares and narrow streets come alive on market days. Look for winter foie gras and truffle sales.

Chalus normal marketdays freidays, in Perigod it is wedensday.

Steam Train, Limoges to Ussels
Take the summer ‘Train Vapeur’ mountain line 100km from Limoges to, along the picturesque Vienne valley to Eymoutiers, then climbing through forests to the high altitude Plateau de Millevaches. The gorges and scenery are spectacular. Trains run in July and August every year and your journey’s length can be shortened by ending at Meymac or Eymoutiers. Consult Limoges Tourist Office for details.

Fishing
The 11,000km of rivers and lakes in Limousin provide some of Europe’s finest fishing - trout and salmon, plus a great variety of coarse fish. At least 12 lakes are open all year and others during the season. The lake at St Suplice Lauriere has carp and pike and day tickets are available at St Suplice town hall. Limousin has over 2,240km of riverbank fishing including 1,956 of prime trout and salmon water.

‘Maison de l’Eau et de la Peche de la Correze’ at Neuvic organises exhibitions, conferences and fishing courses. Fishing permits ‘cartes de peche’ can be obtained throughout the region at shops, tabacs, camp-sites and bars. There are many small hotels around the region for short stays or longer holidays.

How to get there

HBY AIR

LIMOGES AIRPORT, (BELLGARDE).

We are less than 30 minutes drive from the airport, which is served by RYAN AIR andFLYBE. Flights are available from many British airports.
http://www.limogesairport.com
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BY ROAD

We are about 440 miles from CALAIS on good roads. From LE HAVRE, CAEN, ST. MALO, etc. the journey is 300 to 400 miles. We are situated via the A20 motorway exit 28. Take N21 towards PERIGUEUX, stop in Chalus.
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BY RAIL

From PARIS, to LIMOGES (BENEDICTINE) railway station, takes about 3 hours.

Activities near Limoges

Facilities

Further details indoors:
From the hall you can walk into the fully equipped kitchen, with a wood burner, and a table for 8, you can go directly out to the front garden from the kitchen, where there are a huge wooden terrace with two tables and 12 chairs, BBQ, flowerpots, and parasolles.

The kitchen also leads into the laundry room, with washing machines and tumbler dryer, iron and ironing board.
From the hall you also can walk in to the sitting room, with comfortable furnitures, and a 50 cm.

Flat screen TV, video, dvd player, CD player, and from there you go into the beautiful dining room, where there can be seated 16. From the sitting room you can walk out to the garden with a lovely swimming pool, and lots of terraces, garden furnitures, sunbeds and parasolles.

In the hall there is a toilet room.
Then on the first floor, there are 3 1/2 large bedrooms, all with double beds, the 1 1/2 bedroom is a family bedroom, with a bathroom both with a shower and a bath. The other bedrooms are with toilet and shower, there are telephone in two of the bedrooms and internet access ADSL (you must bring your owen laptop).

the next floor has a nice double bedroom with toilet and shower. Here we also find the attic with TV, vidio, wii, rowing machine, cycling, relaxing corner.

Further details outdoors:
There are the huge terrace in front of the house, the sun is nearly always there in the evening, and it is here we have the BBQ, it is a weber and use gaz, and it is to move, there are stores to pull out electric, and parasolles, sometimes a little cat comes on visit!

From the front garden to the back garden you have to walk through a gate, or the house, and there you find the lovely pool, and lots of places to have a nice dinner or a drink.

Further details

English-speaking representative on hand to answer any questions.

Every Saturday the caretaker comes for the garden and the pool.

Conditions

Change over day - Saturday. The house must be vacated by 10am in order to be available for the next visitors at 4pm.
All prices are pr. week and include electricity, towels and bed linen. For guests staying for more than one week we provide a change of towels/bedding

Booking fee of 25% with the reminder to be paid eight weeks before arrival. You are welcome to use any basic foodstuffs in the cupboards.

Rental rates

Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
	2 May 09	27 Jun 09	1300£ 1,182	0-	0-	1 Week
	27 Jun 09	5 Sep 09	1700£ 1,545	0-	0-	1 Week

NB: Prices may be subject to change at the advertiser's discretion.

Cleaning costs per booking: 50 euros

We can accept payments by cheque or bank transfer in GBP or Euros.

Availability

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