🇫🇷 Figeac

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Land	🇫🇷
Typ	Major
Koordinaten	44,603515, 2,037355
Zeitzone	Europe/Paris
Verbindungen	778
UIC-Code	8761309

Über Figeac

Figeac is a station serving the medieval market town of Figeac in the Lot department of the Occitanie region in south-western Frankreich, birthplace of the Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion. TER Regionaldienste connect Figeac along the Brive–Rodez and Figeac–Capdenac lines, was es a modest rail junction for the remote Lot valley area between the Massif Central foothills and the Quercy causse plateaux. Travellers exploring the Lot valley and the Route of Santiago de Compostela through Quercy will find Figeac a convenient base barrierefrei by rail.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Figeac station is about a 10-minute walk from the medieval old town. Walk south towards the Place Champollion and the half-timbered houses of the historic centre along the Cele river.

TER Occitanie regional trains connect Figeac to Toulouse and Rodez. Intercites services pass through on the Clermont-Ferrand to Toulouse line. The station sits at a junction of two regional lines.

Luggage storage at Figeac is limited. The station has a ticket office and basic facilities. The compact medieval town is easily explored on foot.

Figeac is the birthplace of Jean-Francois Champollion, who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs using the Rosetta Stone. The Place des Ecritures features a giant reproduction of the Rosetta Stone. The medieval old town has fine sandstone houses with soleilhos (open-air drying lofts).

Champollion, born in Figeac in 1790, deciphered the Rosetta Stone in 1822, unlocking the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs. His birthplace is now a museum, and the Place des Ecritures has a courtyard-sized replica of the Rosetta Stone carved in black granite by artist Joseph Kosuth.

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