Tourism Angoulême

Angouleme, prefecture of Charente and capital of Angoumois,  represents an important industrial basin with companies diversified like the paper mills, packing and the electrical engineerings. But it is especially in the field of the trades of the image, that Angouleme is affirmed like one of largest the European poles of the cartoon to the advanced numerical imagery.

This evolution, inherited the glorious past of the paper mills angoumoisines, gives today a new breath to the agglomeration. One of the more good example of this evolution is the Center Main road of the Cartoon and Image (CNBDI): The site occupied as of the 6th century by the abbey St Cybard then by the Champigneulles breweries at the beginning of 20th was reorganized in 1987 by the architect Roland Castro. It conceived an architecture "between memory and modernity" which respects the past of the site while creating a frontage of glass which is spread as a book (news functions of the place). On the square, flagstones were created by the artists on the model of the prints of Hollywood. This museum of the data base currently accomodates an exposure on the Imaginary Museums.

Attractions in Angoulême

• International City Comics and Image
• Cathedral Saint-Pierre d'Angoulême
• Castle of Rochefoucauld (20 mn)
• Museul of BD
• Painting walls