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Périgord Noir

Between Vézère and the Dordogne Rivers, discover Black Perigord!

Tourist do not take leave. Périgord Black did you say? Look at our farms, our castles, houses of our cities, their full of stones sun return a golden light.

Walk-up in our forests where oak and chestnut trees are red cap of the fall. See our meadows enameled flowers in spring, our hills and our sub-wood that shade of purple heather from September, the oaks and junipers dressed frost in winter, our Dordogne which began in the rocks and painted ocher brown, in the valley squares tobacco Corn and wheat mixed with the walls of the summer. Listen writes Dr. Boissel:

"Dé négré yo lous goudorels,

Los truffos et tus brades els

Modoumeysello."

There are black mushrooms,

truffles and

Miss your beautiful eyes.

And do not believe, friend, that we associate with our Black Périgord, who is so bright.

BELVES

Along the Bessède, Belvès, medieval bell towers overlooking the seven from the top of its rocky valley of the Nauze.

Because of its charm and hospitality it offers, the visitor can only stop and go the old Castrum rich archaeological and historical interests as well as its recently upgraded troglodyte dwellings and open to the public.

Discovering Belvès, visitors plunged in the past, particularly at the time of the eleventh century while enjoying a wide variety of entertainment available to them: pool, tennis courts, aerodrome network of hiking trails, mountain bike trails, many exhibitions and Summer entertainment. Belvès is a center of both archaeologic and historic interest that deserves more than a stop.

BEYNAC

At the heart of the Black Périgord, clinging to one of the highest and most beautiful cliffs of the Dordogne Valley, the medieval village of Beynac is a witness the prestigious history. Inhabited since the Bronze Age - a few 2000 BC - The rocky outcrop overlooking the Dordogne was a defensive site and an observatory for the exceptional fortress to the bold architecture which gives this epic character in one of four former baronies of Périgord whose lords famed during the Crusades .

Ranked one of the most beautiful villages of France, Beynac provides visitors with its old streets and squares paved with ancient every turn is the area of the Balme to the Port of Caforca at Calvary through Veuve door, the Church or the Castle constant wonder. It's also a walk in the past, is to discover the scenery of exceptional beauty that you will recognize Castles Castle, Marqueyssac, Fayrac the Milandes, witnesses also our old history and the value of our heritage.

This is an opportunity, strolling, visiting the Castle Museum, the Archaeological Park, to mark your interest for our traders and artisans, to culinary enjoyment, a walk on the Dordogne or better yet, to decide that not only Beynac is worth it, but deserves stay. So like Henry Miller and Paul Eluard, you will discover the charm and authenticity of our stones and hear their message and the sound of memories that time has frozen for your pleasure.

LE BUGUE

Le Bugue, southern part of the Vézère crossroads of the Périgord, pleasant city built amphitheater on the penchant of wooded hills overlooking a bend in the river: Vézère.

With its sites and monuments, many distractions, its sporting and gastronomic specialties, visiting Bugue can only be enjoyable and rewarding: Houses of the eighteenth century Romanesque door, fountains, prehistoric caves in engravings, and Bara-Bahau Saint-Cirq, Proumeyssac Chasm (Crystal Cathedral and its petrifying fountain), Museum of Paleontology, giant aquarium, the village of Bournat, canoeing, tennis, horseback riding (the possibility of probation), amusement park for children "The Cabrioles "pools, judo, miniature golf, fishing, bowls, stamp club, night club. ... Not to mention the footpaths (small and large hikes), all of which will penetrate to the heart of a varied landscape and always beautiful.

LE BUISSON DE CADOUIN

Canton du Buisson Cadouin ten common whose activity is predominantly agricultural and forestry. Tobacco accounts for the main crop. The raising of ducks and geese, remained traditional, allows tasting good "foie gras" and confit. Le Buisson Cadouin has a beautiful beach lifeguard on the banks of the Dordogne and at Cabana, a church of the XII century. Cadouin is particularly famous for his church in the Romanesque style founded in 1115 and its Gothic cloister. Bouillac invites you to walk in the forest. Dordogne Badefols opens on three lush valleys and preserved huts winemakers stone. Alles on Dordogne unfolded in a loop of the river, facing the viewpoint of Sors. Calès and XIIth century church overlooking the valley of the Dordogne. Molières, bastide English thirteenth century still has its church of the same period and the ruins of a fortress. Paleyrac A, mounds emerging views on one of the widest views of the Périgord. A Pontours, when the waters of the Dordogne are low, it is possible to distinguish the ford built 2000 years ago. A Urval you will see the oven in the Middle Ages and the church of the XII century. On the whole township, many sporting and cultural activities.

CARLUX

We travel CARLUX Canton. Carlux starting with the right bank of the Dordogne. It was at Cazoulès that it falls within the department to which it gives its name. You will encounter many castles especially for the eyes - few are open to visitors. Near the church of Prats de Carlux lies a small manor sixteenth century. At Lift Carlux near the ruins of the Roman church as it Cadiot perched on the hillside wearing yeuses is the manor of Rignac. Carlux was the seat of a chatellenie played a role during the wars of England. Highest south on the hillside overlooking the Dordogne, with unforgettable views on it, Rouffillac was largely restored in the Renaissance style. A Carsac of Carlux, there is a beautiful church and a brood of manor. The left bank of the Dordogne is périgourdine from the mouth of the Fenoll, which descends from Gourdon. There are so dominating the river, the Château de Mareuil. Fénelon flows of foliage on an edge which dominates the left bank of the Dordogne, in a green area, the Bourriance. This is where Fénelon spent his early childhood. A short walk from the town of Veyrignac, the castle of that name, in a generous park overlooking the river. The remains of the seventeenth century oversees a home a little severe between two flags. Burned in 1944 by the Germans, it was rebuilt. DOMME In 1280, founded the French royal house of the Mount of Domme, just beside the old castle Domme Vella. Domme is fortified and people through the special privileges granted by the king have consuls, judges and administrators, exemptions, the right to fly the currency. The house played an important role during the wars of England. Lost and regained several times, his position was pivotal, in the fourteenth century, the seat of the "sénéchausssée" of Périgord-Quercy. A donation from the famous Gilbert Domme to residents of the city made them the lords of many surrounding areas. At the end of the Hundred Years War, the castle Domme Vella, confiscated Abzac of Bertrand, who had betrayed him, became the King's castle. Several bishops of Sarlat Domme made their home. Wars of Religion and the League, brought to the city turmoil and destruction. Geoffroy de Vivans, Huguenot captain, are cut off, demolishing the church and the former Augustinian. When peace returned, rebuilt the buildings, college was founded in the convent.

Seventeenth century in the nineteenth century, the country experienced a dommois prosperity thanks to the quality of its vineyards and trade was being done by the Dordogne. Plain Bort was a center for extracting the millstone.

Among the famous men from Domme, we must mention the conventional Guillaume Taillefer and Jacques de "jurisconsul" Malville, an editor of the Civil Code.

Domme holds in its flanks beautiful caves where stalactites and stalagmites in rain glittering crystals reach beauty nowhere exceeded. These caves are illuminated by the method most modern enhancing their wealth.

LES EYZIES

Les Eyzies-de-Tayac: In the heart of Black Périgord, the country full of tourism, one of the most delicious cuisine in the world, and the country of prehistory.

In this crossroads of Périgueux, Bergerac and Sarlat, breaking more than 600,000 visitors per year from the whole of France and from all continents.

Famous sites, sometimes located on the common border are, in addition to those of Eyzies, a coherent and focused with regard to prehistory: Font-de-Gaume, the Combarelles the Auger-High, the Auger-Low Shelters and Pataud and Gorge d'Enfer, the Cap Blanc Bernifal. Finally, the National Museum of Prehistory drains alone, 300,000 visitors a year come to relax with the most renowned collections of the world.

Added to the grotto of Grand-Roc and his remarkable concretions, Creascience, a subsidiary of the University of Paris VI, the center of popular science, and the prehistoric-Tursac Park and habitat troglodyte de la Madeleine.

Hotels and restaurants, rooms, campsites gîtes welcome tourists visiting from all walks of life such famous sites. Les Eyzies-de-Tayac is a center of economic interest.

LIMEUIL

Here Limeuil, Celtic name "Lemoïalum" instead planted elms . The elms are gone, but the rich Limeuil past remains. Ranked among the "most beautiful villages of France", he finished admirably beautiful valley "Vézère" a hundred items selected by the Heritage of Humanity.

At the confluence of Vézère and Dordogne, privileged status, it has always attracted men. Prehistoric site, the rock terraces overlooking the river is a place of defense. Medieval city, the city spent the struggles of French influence in English during the Hundred Years War. For centuries, the waterway was active and had the heavy barges Limeuil port and anchor of salvation. "

In the plain, the chapel atoning Saint-Martin-de-Limeuil, pure Romanesque style, celebrated his eighth centenary in 1994. Limeuil offers: a walk in "Balladin" on rivers, canoes, kayaks. Fishing, swimming. Circuit Hiking and mountain biking camping, farm holidays.

Craftsman glass and forge. LASCAUX

MONTIGNAC

Montignac is internationally known for its famous cave of Lascaux, the art gallery, unique in the world, unfortunately, now closed to the public.

Since 1983, Lascaux II, a remarkable "facsimile, opened a hundred meters below, gives a clear idea of the wealth of Lascaux.

Gateway northern valley Vézère, the "Valley of Man", Montignac has done much to promote tourism: camping, swimming pool, stadium, tennis court, fishing ponds, hiking trails, hiking canoe-kayak.

In a beautiful valley follow other sites related to prehistory: Regourdou deposits of Castelmerle center Prehistoric Art of Thoth, the cave habitats Roque-Saint Christopher and Madeleine.

The Middle Ages, the Renaissance had built many churches: Abbey of Saint-Amand-de-Coly, Church of St. Leon, Sergeac with the ordeal, Plazac, Fanlac; magnificent castles: Great Filolie, Losse, Belcayre. The houses on stilts edges of Vézère seduce the summer which also find festivities: music Folklore Museum Eugene Roy, not to mention the pleasures of the table.

LA ROQUE GAGEAC

If France's image takes multiple reflections of beauty, it is a haughty Périgord cliff derived as a bulwark and, over time was the most flattering tributes. The President seems Poincaré said he discovered it: "This is the most beautiful villages in France!" And later as an echo, the writer Henry Miller seemed to reply: "If there is paradise on earth is this scene that surely would have chosen!"Backed steep rock crowned with oaks, castles and home to brown roofs illuminated flowers are reflected in the moving mirror of the Dordogne, a masterpiece of nature, route seems the brush a masterful impressionist painter. La Roque still defies the centuries. One which, in the Middle Ages, was a town of 1500 people, shows here and there, some of his injury history, but close to the romantic church, an elegant mansion with round towers is the testimony of a family, the Tarde, who seem to torch-bearers of the small town since John, the canon, humanist, an astronomer friend of Galilee and considered one of the greatest minds of his time (1561-1636), until Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), lawyer and world-renowned criminologist.

Its port, very active time Gabarriers, has regained its animation to tourists who on comfortable "gabarres" can discover the most beautiful of the river where "all is order and beauty" .

The agricultural village is kept: tobacco, maize, nuts, strawberries, farm ducks and geese are the main resources of farmers. ROUFFIGNAC SAINT-CERNIN In the north-west of the Black Perigord, Rouffignac and region are the place of passage from Périgueux. It is a country of wood (forest Barada, the country Jacquou Crisp) and culture of strawberry. Website already visited since prehistoric times: the Hundred to Mammoth Cave is the largest of the decorated caves known today (10 km galleries and 270 paintings or prints).

The sixteenth century saw the reconstruction on foundations feudal castle of Herm. This is a house of Gothic: door, staircase and fireplaces. The church of St.-Germain is in the same time. His columns in molded propellers appear to have a common inspiration in the decoration of the core of the monumental staircase of the castle of Herm.

Regarding the reception, there is a hotel, guest houses, camping with swimming pool, camping at the farm - tennis - Horseback riding - fishing - hiking.

SAINT-CYPRIEN

By its location, Saint-Cyprien is both the tourist hub of the Black Périgord and a landmark in the beautiful valley of the Dordogne, with a radius of several kilometers, Sarlat, the Milandes, Beynac, Le Chasm Proumeyssac, Les Eyzies and Vézère Valley.

Nestled on the side of a hill overlooking the verdant valley of the Dordogne, the picturesque village of Saint-Cyprien is full of history as reflected in the winding alleys leading to the bell-tower of the XII century attached to the church with its organs buffet classified and beyond Caves Rouquefournière and Castle Fages. Several marked hiking trails offer various tours to discover the wealth of local Romanesque chapels, castles, Cluzeau dug into the cliffs, valleys and glades and shady costs.

Range of accommodation with the various meublés, hotels and campsites. The new route of the valley allows the city to experience a new boom. A quality of life, many sports clubs and cultural and entertainment provided by the proximity of the most beautiful river of France will encourage you to stay.

SAINTE-ALVERE

St. Alvère is a nice town full of charm located at the birth of the valley of the Louyre, halfway Périgueux and Bergerac. Do not you know this little town of greenery, old buildings and calm wild?

This powerful fortress, dating from the twelfth century, which was burned and sold at auction by the conventional Lakanal, was the stronghold of the family Lostanges and occupied the hill to the east of the town. One can imagine even the broad terms of polygon walls once chanted eleven semi-circular towers. The keep, and the postern three rounds remaining.

In the immediate vicinity of St. Alvère by hiking trails, in addition to its rolling landscapes, you can discover its old mansions, large farms, the relay of diligence on the Roman road, and enjoy its natural calm conducive to daydreaming.

The tennis, sports field and library await you.

SALIGNAC Eyvigues

At the crossroads of three departments, three provinces in three major regions, the canton of Salignac a tourist affirmed. In addition to his own wealth, it offers vacationers who choose to stay, a haven of peace, just minutes from the cave of Lascaux II and Sarlat. All representatives of a rich artistic and architectural heritage are found, since the modest shepherd's hut, built on the corner of a meadow, to feudal castles, Renaissance or via elegant manor, by a strange enfeux graveyard, or the gardens French. Campings, cottages, holiday villages, hotels and restaurants allow tourists to spend a pleasant stay while enjoying a cuisine whose reputation is well known, discovering a rural society that does not forget his roots or traditions.

SARLAT

Between Vézère and Dordogne, nestled in a valley, Sarlat already attracted to the vision of its old roofs. Go through alleyways, it read almost a thousand years of authentic architecture dominated pad to roofs lauzes This blonde and hot stone.

Sarlat, the heritage, is the European city with the largest number of registered or listed buildings per square kilometer. Guided tours of the medieval city are held regularly during the season.

SIORAC IN PERIGORD

Siorac en Perigord is a charming village located on the banks of the Dordogne and whose origins lie in the distant past. There are many relics such as dolmen, polishers, Castelréal Tower.

The weight of its seventeenth-century castle complete with a terrace overlooking the most pleasant and picturesque valleys, bathed in the Dordogne to clean water and fish. Due to its tourist Siorac offers many recreational opportunities. It is also a gourmet relay with its good restaurants and its products. Urval authentic medieval village, is located to the west, as a buttress. At the time of the conquest of the country "petri Corii" (stone houses), from which came the word Périgord, by Julius Caesar in the first century before Christ. In the eighth century, the temple built by the Romans was transformed into a shrine, and there are still in the church of marble columns and capitals of this primitive little building pagan. You can also see today in the Four Banal Urval, restored by the Fine Arts, he is a very rare specimen of rural architecture in the Middle Ages. Berbiguières picturesque village located in the east, is home to many Britons . These two villages, together with a beautiful island Siorac softness, to live well, where the most modern distractions are available to all.

TERRASSON

At the crossroads of three provinces, through the National Road 89, and bathed by the Vézère Terrasson which is located at the entrance of the Black Perigord and Limousin confins and Quercy, a tourist certain. Its potential home improvement, the scope and diversity of entertainment offered to tourists (stadium, swimming pool, tennis parties, concerts), make it both an ideal stopover between the mountains of Auvergne and the Atlantic coast and at the threshold of Vézère Prehistory, a residence enjoyed. The old city surrounding the imposing mass of the church of a string of gray roofs seem jealously host of narrow streets and picturesque stairs climbing the hill.

The ramparts of the ancient abbey, offers a magnificent panorama in the eyes of the visitors who dominated the Vézère, two bridges and new neighborhoods, and pretty lively. In the north, announced the green hills near the Limousin, with the sources and wood, while the thin vegetation of southern slopes already indicates the rough Quercy.

This landscape in warm colors, has emerged as both a feeling of calm and balance that requires both recollection and exalts the imagination.

Since 1994, the beauty is enhanced by the gardens of Terrasson la Villedieu, a vast garden of 6 hectares, visit, which evokes the history of the gardens of humanity. Be sure to discover this unique place for discovering and to dream.

THENON

At an average altitude of 258 meters, Thenon small town in the Dordogne, is favored by its location and its natural surroundings. Nearby major centers such as Périgueux (30km) and Brive (40km), Thenon is an ancient city that is beginning to be evidenced in the writings of the twelfth century. At that time, built on a hill, the town was a castrum and had organized a system of defense against invaders. The city was dominated by the powerful family Hautefort. The Church of Thenon, whose origins date back to the twelfth century, is dedicated to Saint-Martial.

Thenon was from the Middle Ages, a place of passage, it is still a stage where it is good to stay. It's a cozy, happy, naturally.

It has monuments witnessing its history, a local diversified and dynamic, a water in which to fish and swim.

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