Angouleme AJ
Located in the park of Bourgines, surrounded by Charente, the Hostel is a part of a very pleasant sight. Near to the City Center, as well as the train station of Angouleme, it is very easy to reach there
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Angoulême is a town and commune in southwestern France, préfecture (capital city) of the Charente département. Angoulême is located 134 km or 83 miles N.N.E. of Bordeaux on the railway between Bordeaux and Poitiers. The town proper occupies an elevated promontory, washed on the north by the Charente and on the south and west by the Anguienne, a small tributary of that river. The more important of the suburbs lie towards the east, where the promontory joins the main plateau, of which it forms the north-western extremity. In place of its ancient fortifications, Angoulême is encircled by boulevards known as the Remparts, from which fine views may be obtained in all directions. Within the town the streets are often dark and narrow, and, apart from the cathedral and the hôtel de ville, the architecture is of little interest. The cathedral of St. Pierre, a church in the Byzantine-Romanesque style, dates from the 11th and 12th centuries, but has undergone frequent restoration, and was partly rebuilt in the latter half of the 18th century by the architect Paul Abadie. The façade, flanked by two towers with cupolas, is decorated with arcades filled in with statuary and sculpture, the whole representing the Last Judgment. The crossing is surmounted by a dome, and the extremity of the north transept by a fine square tower over 160 ft. high.
