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Culan is a common French, located in the department of the Cher and the area Center.

Culan is above all known for the Château of Culan, fortress medieval of the XII°-XV° centuries which overhangs the valley of the Arnon.

Geography

The commune of Culan is located at the extreme southern point of the Département of Expensive the, in the natural area of Walk. It is to 30 km of Montlucon (To combine) and to 63 km of Chateauroux (Indre). It is on the first buttresses of the north of the Massif Central, in the province of the Berry, close to Bourbonnais. Administratively, it belongs to the area Center.

It is a country delicately undulating, of scrap-metal, although the " bouchures" (hedges) and " têteaux" (oaks étêtés with the branches cut close to the trunk, giving them a pace of post) are often sacrificed to increase the fields and to facilitate the culture. Continental climate moderated by the oceanic influence. The commune is bathed by the river Arnon, which will be thrown in Expensive, this last in the Loire. Upstream, a stopping with the locality " was built; Chetz" , on the commune of Sidiailles, whose reserve of 90 hectares feeds out of drinking water 20000 inhabitants divided on forty communes. The village is crossed by D 943, which connects Montlucon to Chateauroux.

Culan is on the layout of the Green Méridienne, a project imagined to celebrate the year 2000 by the architect Paul Chemetov: trees were planted on the layout of the meridian line of Paris (axis Dunkirk - Prats de Mollo in the the Eastern Pyrenees). This same meridian line of Paris crosses the Saint-Etienne cathedral of Bourges, building in which it is symbolized since 1757 by a red copper wire on the ground between the third and fourth spans of the nave. .

The castle is visited every Easter Day to All Saints' day. Medieval weekends are organized there the last weeks of July and in August, as well as ten visits to the torches certain evenings of summer.

Another inheritance

Near the Castle of Culan, in sloping lanes, some beautiful houses of the Middle Ages.

At the beginning of the 19th century the State modernizes the trunk road of Tours to Clermont-Ferrand. In the crossing of Culan, the road bridge spanning Arnon will be completed in 1843, expropriations of the grounds having begun in 1818. Before this work of art, the road passed in the suburb while skirting the ramparts to the south and while passing on the bridge " romain".

the church is dedicated to Saint Vincent. It was formerly the vault of the castle, reserved to the lords. Y remain of the capitals of the 12th century. The bell-tower and the side chapels are late additions. Inside, a harmonium without interest whose sonorities make offense with the delicate tympanums. There existed since the 12th century a priory depend on the abbey of Déols to the locality “Prahas”. It was used as parish church until 1630. On this date, the prince of Condé obtained from the bishop that the vault of the castle becomes parish church of Culan. The priory of Prahas was maintained until the revolution, in 1714 its bells were gone down and transported in the church of Culan. The priory was demolished at the beginning of the 20th century and was replaced by a small vault, with the entry of the communal cemetery.

large a Viaduc out of stone overhangs the Château of Culan. It offers a beautiful sight on the valley of Arnon, the village and the fortress. This viaduct comprises two sections, one of five arches, the second of eleven, certain pillars are inserted with 50 meters in the ground. It was built in 1883, the open line the following year served Chateauroux and Montlucon. It was closed in 1987, receiving the last years of its exploitation only of the goods trains. It is a private property today (see site on Internet). The rails were removed, the sold houses of gate-keeper, as well as the station of Culan. The influence of the ways to the wire of time is nibbled by the gardens, the countryside and brambles.

a pond of ten hectares (prohibited bathe, authorized fishing), a municipal camp-site , a tourist office on the foirail, a point reception for motor home, all trade and medical professions. Ten kilometers, the water reserve of Sidiailles in a picturesque and protected site allows bathe and water sports (not motor boat). With 12 kilometers, Châteaumeillant, the place chief of canton, and its wine VDQS (red and gray), with 6 kilometers, Vesdun, one of the three “official “centers of France with Bruère-Allichamps and Saulzais-the-Potter.

The dynamited bridge

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