“Quartered red and ermine” The combined arms of Alain d’Albret and his wife Françoise de Blois, known as de Bretagne. Alain d’Albret, Viscount of Limoges by his marriage in 1470, gave ‘Concèze’ in the seigniory of Ségur to his cousin Jean de Pompadour, to thank him for great services rendered.

Excavations have revealed flints, and geological resources like veins of crystallised quartz and graphite. Mine workings are thought to be at the origin of the name [coron in modern French means a mining village]. A legend also has it that it comes from camp de César — phoneticized as ‘counchezard’ in the local dialect.

Concèze is one of Limousin’s ‘Villages in Bloom’, awarded ‘3 flowers’.

Concèze is of Gallo-Roman historical origins, confirmed by the discovery of a Gallo-Roman burial ground during excavations in 1977. Finds from these (funeral urns, vases, etc.) are displayed in the Regional Resource Centre for Archæology of the Landscape in Uzerche.

The commune has 36 hamlets, where we can admire:

• 12th and 15th-century church, listed as an Historic Building on 1/9/1922: fully restored, it features numerous wall paintings. It has a bell ‘Salvaterra’ dating from 1475 and listed since 12/11/1908.

• the renovated village bake-house,

• the restored St Côme’s Spring: formerly the village wash-place. It cured stomach ache; people took the water home, and they also threw coins in to invoke its protection.

• Full of flowers: uone of Limousin’s ‘Villages in Bloom’, awarded ‘3 flowers’ in the regional towns and villages in bloom competition, in the heart of the Limousin apple- and raspberry-growing area.

• The covered market opposite the Auberge de Concèze (used for cooking the giant Guinness record-breaking raspberry tart during the Raspberry Fair in July: 8.04 m, 23,800 raspberries).

Tel : +33 (0)5 55 25 61 51 – fax : +33 (0)5 55 25 24 07
e-mail : conceze@conceze.com
Website : www.conceze.com

Opening hours :
Weekdays 1:30–5pm /  Saturdays 9am–noon
Town Hall secretary : Christelle PROVOST