Limoges Cathedral

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The cathedral of Saint-Étienne de Limoges is the main church of Limoges and the seat of the bishopric of Limoges, in the French department of Haute-Vienne in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is located in the heart of the old district of the City, adjacent to the gardens of the bishopric with its terraces overlooking Vienna and its botanical garden and adjacent to the Museum of Fine Arts, former palace of the bishopric. It is one of the most remarkable buildings in the city, with the station of Limoges-Bénédictins, and the only religious monument of the Limousin that is built in homogeneous Gothic style despite an edifice that runs from the 11th to the 19th century. The building has been classified as a French historic monument since 1862.

Paleo-Christian and Romanesque origins: Built in an agglomeration that was to become the City, city of the bishop facing the village of the Viscount castle and the Abbey of Saint-Martial, its origin is probably paleo-Christian. In 1884, Antoine Héron de Villefosse published an inscription which he saw engraved on a fragment "engaged in the foundation of the entrance tower of the cathedral, N.-E. pillar", which he believed could be a re-use of a Milestone...