Ségur

Ségur occupies a rocky spur enclosed by a bend of the Auvézère. Its castle became a favoured residence of the viscounts of Limoges, with the houses of knights gathered in the outer enclosure. Below the fortress, the town acquired a judicial importance that outlasted the viscounts' residence. From the thirteenth to the eighteenth century, their court of appeals heard cases from the surrounding lordships at Ségur.