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The museum of the Memory of Cransac was creates by " the Association of Friends de Cransac ".
It(he) redraws 2 000 years of history of the village of Cransac on 400 m2 with more than 350 photographic reproductions, history, plans and 5 models (among whom(which) one of the full of life 12 M2).
The village is built at feet of a hill " Montet " which wastes(destroys) for numerous centuries a subterranean fire.
This phenomenon gave birth to an original balneology " Unique(only) in Europe ". Warm gases are used in steam rooms to look after the rheumatisms.
It is the fantastic history of this village and the history of its balneology that will present you the museum.
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Indeed, Cransac-les-Eaux owes his(her) renomée lontaine to his(her) sources which Romans already knew. The Highlight is situated between 1 800 and 1850. One comes there from whole France; one counted in this time 5 to 6 000 persons having hydrotherapy a year.
One sent in bottles more than 100 000 liters of mineral water in France and abroad.
Then the industrial revolution in the end of the XIX-th century arises. Cransac for 100 years is transformed into mining town. In 1907, to Cransac, there were 4 000 minors for a population of 7 000 inhabitants. Around thirty wells was drilled. An immense coal tip buries the Park of " Cransac-les-Eaux ". 3 big disasters (due to the firedamp) came to sadden the village.
The museum is opened from Tuesday till Saturday from 14 o'clock till 18 o'clock of April at the end of November. Visits commented by a guide trilingue. Opened all year to the groups on meeting.
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