Pôle image
This mammoth development encompasses training centres and a noteworthy school of the cinema industry , and a centre for specialist businesses working in the animated image field. It was built in the best possible place, by the River Charante, near the CNBD... and is provided with a reproduction of the rocket drawn by Hergé which allowed Tintin, Captain Haddock and the Professor to walk on the moon well before Neil Armstrong.
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Beaulieu Square
This square is situated at the edge of the promontory where the Guez-de-Blazac secondary school has replaced a Benedictine Abbey. You have a beautiful view of the faubourg and Church of Saint-Ausone (by Abadie) in the foreground, the confluence of the River Angueinne and Charente in the middle ground and the Green garden in the background.
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Museum of the Archaeological society
Here there are Gallo-Roman mosaics In the halls and in the garden, collections of artefacts from the Roman era to the present day and regional pottery, weaponry, enamels from Limoges and various curios.
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Ladent Tower
It was from the heights of this tower that General Resnier, armed with a pair of wings tried to fly, unfortunately crashing to the ground and breaking a leg ending his attempt to equip the soldiers of the imperial army with his new invention.
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