Limoges. The closest airports are Limoges-Bellegarde, Clermont-Ferrand-Auvergne. The Ussel-Thalamy airfield is a leisure and tourist oriented place. It is located a few kilometers away from town. Twinning Ussel is paired with Auray (France), located in the department of Morbihan. Economy Forest products and wood Ussel shelters many company in the wood field, like the panel producer MDF Isoroy, the stratified clothes designer Polyrey, the interior door manufacturer Jeld Wen, the front door manufacturer Bel . Mining and steel The Des farges mine, located 3 kilometers from Ussel, is part of Nouvelle-Aquitaine's mining. The extraction of lead was applied, as well as silver and much more, until its closure in 1981. La Société des fonderies d'Ussel (SFU) is one of the metallurgical representative of the region. Food processing The city is the center of a farming region, marked by the bovine breed limousine and the pig farming at the same time. The pork butcher group Loste owns a production site of salted meat in the industrial area Empereur. Regional products are beef and pork, hunting and fishing products, and harvest products (cep, chanterelle, blueberry ) Local dishes are the tourtou or the farcidure, for example. Pharmaceutical industry The industrial sector sets up in High-Corrèze since 1990 when Bristol-Myers Squibb settles a production site in the town of Meymac. In 1999, Pierre Fabre came to Ussel by building a distribution and logistics center in the industrial zone of L'Empereur. The company Chesapeake features a production unit specializing in packaging for the pharmaceutical industry (holsters and instructions), also located in the industrial zone of "The Emperor". Culture Museum of Ussel The museum of Ussel is dedicated to history, arts and tradition of the region of Ussel. It features some objects and pictorial representations. Another part is devoted to the history of printing and exhibitions of engraving. Many of the objects exhibited concerning agricultural trades were kindly provided by Dr. Ernest Chiocconi, a salvage dealer. He had recovered objects in agricultural holdings which were no longer used. Transcorrezien Railway Line Ussel was the northern terminus of the Metre Gauge Transcorrezien railway line linking Tulle to Ussel via Marcillac-la-Croisille, Lapleau, Soursac and Liginiac. This line was part of the narrow gauge network of railways in the Corrèze region. While the line has disappeared, many architectural and track elements still remain and can be visited by the public. Many of the stations are preserved and have