🇫🇷 Figeac

Major

Francia

Datos rápidos

País	🇫🇷 Francia
Tipo	Major
Coordenadas	44,603515, 2,037355
Zona horaria	Europe/Paris
Conexiones	778
Código UIC	8761309

Acerca de Figeac

Figeac is a estación serving the medieval mercado town of Figeac in the Lot department of the Occitanie region in sur-occidental France, birthplace of the Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion. TER servicios regionales connect Figeac along the Brive–Rodez and Figeac–Capdenac líneas, making it a modest rail nudo ferroviario for the remote Lot valle area between the Massif Central foothills and the Quercy causse plateaux. viajeros exploring the Lot valle and the ruta of Santiago de Compostela through Quercy will find Figeac a convenient base accesoible by rail.

Preguntas frecuentes

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.

Operadores

DB

National · Alemania

OBB

National · Austria

Renfe

National · España

SNCF

National · Francia

Destinos principales

Destino	Distancia	Duración
🇨🇭 Ginebra	367 km	189 min	Ruta →
🇫🇷 Bourg-en-Bresse	305 km	95 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Berna	493 km	250 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Basilea	539 km	273 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Aigle	429 km	219 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Neuchâtel	464 km	236 min	Ruta →
🇮🇹 Milán	571 km	169 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Martigny	428 km	218 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Lausana	416 km	213 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Zúrich HB	589 km	297 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Sion	453 km	231 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Sierre/Siders	468 km	238 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Altdorf	570 km	288 min	Ruta →
🇩🇪 Aquisgrán	749 km	219 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Andermatt	558 km	282 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Disentis/Müstair	579 km	292 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Bex	428 km	218 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Bellinzona	574 km	290 min	Ruta →
🇩🇪 Augsburgo	795 km	232 min	Ruta →
🇨🇭 Brunnen	575 km	290 min	Ruta →