Champ de Juillet

The Champ de Juillet, in Limoges

The Champ de Juillet is a vast green esplanade that leads to the Bénédictins station, in the heart of Limoges. The Limoges audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this great public garden, former agricultural ground become a place of promenade and setting of the famous station of the town.

The green esplanade of the station

Here, it is not the Champ de Mars, but indeed the Champ de Juillet that you cross, that leads straight to the Bénédictins station. Formerly used as a zone of agricultural cultivation, this ground was over time laid out into a vast esplanade and a public garden, becoming one of the great green spaces of the centre of Limoges. The Champ de Juillet owes its name to the revolutionary days of July, in the image of numerous places named in reference to these events of the history of France. Today, it is a pleasant promenade planted with trees, adorned with lawns, alleys and beds, where the Limoges people like to stroll and to relax. The esplanade offers a magnificent perspective over the Bénédictins station, of which it constitutes the setting and the extension: from the Champ de Juillet, the gaze is drawn towards the campanile and the copper dome of the station, in a majestic staging that highlights this architectural masterpiece. A place of passage between the station and the town centre, the Champ de Juillet also hosts events and festivals over the year. A green esplanade and a setting of the station, the Champ de Juillet is a fine stop of the discovery of Limoges.

What to see

Here you stroll on the vast green esplanade that leads to the Bénédictins station, former agricultural ground become a public garden planted with trees, lawns and beds; it offers a magnificent perspective over the campanile and the copper dome of the station, of which it constitutes the majestic setting, and hosts promenades and events in the heart of the town. The Champ de Juillet is a setting of the station of Limoges. It is a fine stop, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The Champ de Juillet lies between the centre of Limoges and the Bénédictins station, reachable on foot. It is an esplanade and a public garden in the open air, freely accessible. It is a pleasant place of promenade, that offers a fine perspective over the station and hosts events over the year.

What is the Champ de Juillet in Limoges?

A vast green esplanade that leads to the Bénédictins station, former agricultural ground become a public garden planted with trees and beds, whose name evokes the revolutionary days of July; it offers a magnificent perspective over the campanile and the dome of the station, of which it constitutes the setting, and is a pleasant place of promenade in the heart of the town.

Where is the Champ de Juillet in Limoges?

Between the centre of Limoges and the Bénédictins station, in France.