Chambon-sur-Voueize

Chambon-sur-Voueize grew around a monastery in the valleys of the Voueize and Tardes. Founded in the ninth century, it received most of the relics of Saint Valerie from Limoges around 985. Her cult gave the monastery a lasting place in the region's religious life. The great abbey church preserves a reliquary bust of the saint and carved furnishings made by the Aubusson sculptor François Tournier, who died while working there in 1710.