Oradour Sur Glane

Oradour sur Glane is also known as the martyred village. The name is referring to the trafficking events of June 1944. Entrance to the ruins of the village is free and the walk through the "memory center". The village is on the N141 when you travel from Limoges in the direction of Angouleme. On June 10, the town was quiet until the arrival of a group of German military personal at 2pm. They gathered all in the people in the village church, destroyed all the houses and burned the 642 people alive, including nearly 200 children. The town has been preserved like this, burned and destroyed. It was quite large and you can see on the walls of the houses the name of the people who lived there or business that was there.