Champsac


Champsac is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France, sitting near to both the Dordogne and Charente borders.
Inhabitants are known as Champsacois.
The village snuggles quietly within the Dordogne-Limousin National Park. Amenities within Champsac include a butchers, a bakers, a hairdressers, a church, a wine merchants and a bar/hotel/restaurant and tabac 'Le Champsac'.
It is also very near to other amenities to include supermarkets, châteaus, lakes, cycle paths, fishing etc. and sits approximately 30 minutes south-west of Limoges airport. The historic city of Limoges and towns/villages such as Rochuchaurt, Oradour sur Glane, St Junien and Chalus are also close by.
The joint Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes, in which Champsac will sit, is a future Region of Southwestern France, created by the territorial reform of French Regions in 2014 by merger of Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes. It will cover 84,061 km2 - or 1/8th of the country - and will have 5,808,594 inhabitants.. The new region will take effect after the regional elections of December 2015, on 1 January 2016.