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Purple Périgord

The approval of sites, the nostalgic charm of old buildings steeped in history (bastides) make you love this country, where winemakers can sometimes be the masters of French thought.

Vineyards and Bastides and are in fact two jewels of this country. Thirteen townships south of the department Dordogne-Périgord Périgord is the crossroads of main roads to Paris, the Pyrenees, the Basque Coast, the Atlantic coast and the Auvergne. thus, in traveling the Wine Road, you will discover the names of world famous, high quality as the Bergerac and its sumptuous dress of a red backed (purple this perigord appreciated by Fénelon, the Rosette fruity was declaiming Mounet-Sully, both praised the Montravel by Montaigne, and the Saussignac Monbazillac, sweet, the sweetness of which was praised by Rabelais and Brantôme, and so dear to Father Charles de Foucaud, and finally Pécharmant, well bodied, vin de garde du Périgord, loved by Brian Maine, feeling violet. Ten thousand hectares of vineyards stretch along the meandering Dordogne. The vineyard feels good, having a sweet balance between the warm southern sun and the influence of the ocean benefactor.

The road creates the traveler, a traveler who quickly thirst, thirst for knowledge sights, and ... of wine. The sights however, no shortage! Lovers of Art and History will be closed. He discovers a land of hospitality, dialogue and sling. It knew the occupation of the first man, then the Romans (Montcaret), lived the Hundred Years War (fortresses and walled towns) and the Wars of Religion. At the end of this rewarding horse riding, walking, cycling or car, the passenger will leave invite the people of this country to "finish to enter in their homes and enjoy the white or red wine of their last harvest. He also lured by the trout, pike, zander, lampreys, poultry, foie gras, confit, verjuice, ceps or chanterelles. The country kitchen is in effect, like its wines, like Cyrano de Bergerac, full of verve, of truculence, symbols of the good life.

And if this traveler wins the hearts of his hosts, he can one day be told in the cellar of the cloister Récollets enthronement formula made by the Consuls of the Vine:

"They drink collected, with the devotion drink the warm, sparkling in their glass is the fruit of labor from several hundred people noble, strong and proud, the wine. "

Beaumont du Périgord

This English bastide, founded in 1272 by Lucas de Thaney, Seneschal of Guyenne, on behalf of the King of England, Edouard 1, was built on the site of an older town, some place names remain, such the old place. The hall was demolished in 1854. Beautiful like the doors Luzi, remain. The church of the XIIth century is remarkable western façade with horizontal storied frieze, two square towers. A hilly, accessible and laughing at the gates of the city. For nature lovers, a very happy relaxation, good cuisine and excellent hospitality. Activities: fishing, tennis, cave climbing, hiking, etc ... Many small villages complete the range as: Saint-Avit Sénieur: a medieval town, with remains of an abbey that dominates the mass of a church of the eleventh century.

Montferrand-du-Périgord houses and dovecotes of XVI and XVII century feudal castle, Romanesque chapel of the twelfth century. Sainte-Croix: charming Romanesque church, a former Templar priory or house, castle of the late eighteenth century.

The Bouquerie: green and wooded area where you will want to walk or stay on the farm for example. Southerly Rampieux and its Romanesque church and then Nojals Clottes, close to this county, two relics from the Neolithic period (lane covered with white and Negro Dolmen de Peyre).

Santa Sabina: Dolmen, Cugnac castle, the medieval village of Larocal houses stacking beams sixteenth century. Molières: unfinished English bastide with its Gothic church whose facade is flanked by a tower with two floors.

BERGERAC

At the heart of the Dordogne Valley, the center of famous vineyards (Monbazillac, Pécharmant), Bergerac is a modern city of 28,000 inhabitants. Cité de la douceur de vivre, gastronomy, the climate, the rear-season sweet and pleasant, the capital of Perigord. Fleurie City, Bergerac has all the amenities of a modern city. Older neighborhoods, tourist center, magnificently restored are part of many summer events. It is reached by pedestrian streets, very commercial and picturesque alleys. It discovers the half-timbered houses, buildings of the XIV and XVI centuries and charming plots. The church of Saint-Jacques, recently restored historic monument, dominates all illuminated at night.

EYMET

For immediate vicinity, many prehistoric sites ranging from below the upper Paleolithic, Neolithic, at the age of metals. At the crossroads of two ancient tracks. Gallo-Roman presence attested both in and around town. A small village existed at the VII and VIII century and a dependent priory of Moissac was created at the end of the eleventh century, all protected by a Castelnaud. It was Alphonse de Poitiers, brother of Louis XI gave the new town of Hayminete its founding charter. It was under the British that the house was built in approximately its present and fortified.After the period known as the Hundred Years War, was the establishment of Reformed worship, leading, at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, a mass exodus of forces in the region. If only a modest sacrifice to the new cult of the Revolution which was marked mainly by the presence of Lakanal and new exoduses, life remained fairly calm until the last two wars.

Sightseeing: Place Gambetta, colorful market days, old houses and alleys. The edges of the bridge and its Dropt thirteenth century, but the dungeon and museum.

LA FORCE

La Force, Canton of the good life, calmness and serenity. If you cross, in the plain, the common Prigonrieux, Saint-Pierre-d'Eyraud, The Fleix, you can follow the banks of the Dordogne, sometimes capricious, in its twists and offering our fishermen friends tell how well beautiful taken. In the Land, on the slopes, a village appears: Ginestet, Lunas, Fraysse, Monfaucon, Saint-Georges-de-Blancaneix, Saint-Géry, or Bosset The Lèches. In all municipalities, woods of oak, chestnut, pine can walk and discover the flora and fauna and especially fungi. The cuisine, with the manufacturing of farm products is very important. In the plains, many vegetable crops, tobacco, livestock. Few historical, if not the remains of the castle of the Dukes of UNFICYP, which was often the scene of religious wars. Nor should we forget that Pastor John Bost created the foundation that bears his name and has many pavilions spread over part of the canton.

LALINDE

Canton of Lalinde was formerly very populous shelters prehistoric deposits habitat-surface - cluseaux. Gallo-Roman presence (Diolindum ford of the Dordogne) a Gallo-Roman road from Limoges to Agen probably going near the hamlet of Pontours. These assets decided to found a city on the river in 1267 by King Henry III of England. Lalinde became bastide anglaise: Braga door and walls of the waterfront. The vitality of the Township has been considerable in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Romanesque churches, castles, mansions and large houses. From the fifteenth, thirteen mills on the river settled Couze for making paper-based wipes. For several centuries this production was very important. At the beginning of this century, the mills are silent gradually. There were only two or three in the activity, and Larroque Mill Bar-Vieux. An association has restored and revived the old mill of Rouzique.

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MAUZAC

(sailing school) Plan water Lanquais ((swimming) Monuments Donjon Castle Baneuil Romanesque Churches: Chapel of Saint-Front -du Coulobre old disused church Couze, language, Varennes, Saint-Agne, Saint-Capraise, Baneuil, Pressignac-Vicq, Sainte-Colombe, Grand Castang Monpazier BIRON Canton Monpazier includes 13 municipalities and 2000 inhabitants. It is a small township in agriculture. Local products are tobacco, chestnut, strawberry market mushrooms very important in Halle. Trade and services are grouped mainly in the capital of canton Monpazier. From a historical point of view, some beautiful churches in the villages of Canton, and Biron whose castle départemental site, dominates the surrounding country. It offers visitors eight centuries of architecture: dungeon, chapel, court, Hall of States.

Monpazier is undoubtedly the house of Europe's best preserved. It was founded by the King of England, Edward 1st in 1284. Built on a rectangular 400 m by 200 m, it is cut by straight and parallel streets. Place des Angles, the Halle and its measures, the doors, the church, the Chapter House and lanes.

ISSIGEAC

At the heart of the country houses, the lordship of Issigeac can only seduce.

Only an exceptional history helps explain the importance of its monuments contained in a circular enclosure. Under the current medieval buildings, recent excavations have revealed a rich Gallo-Roman villa (baths, mosaics, smelters ...) and a Merovingian necropolis.

In the XIIth century, the village is governed by a lord dean, abbot of the monastery, then by the bishops of Sarlat, which made it their regular residence. We must walk in the maze of alleys, getting lost in a beautiful maze that leads to discoveries picturesque as it was unexpected. This is the paradise image of hunters. The church, a Gothic, surprised by the elevation of the nave and the narrow rigor of his bedside. The Bishops Palace is an imposing and sober building with two flats high angle to the slender turrets. In the village, happiness alternating with large houses half-timbered houses and a few eighteenth-century among them the Prévôté Carthusian monastery high on the foundations of walls, door spur, a dovecote and a bunch of flat tiles.

COUNTRY of MONTAIGNE GURÇON

A sixty kilometers east of Bordeaux and near the medieval town of Saint-Emilion, the Pays de Montaigne and Gurçon opens the door of Perigord by the two major valleys of the island and the Dordogne. 1453: Battle of Castillon (see Lamothe-Montravel). Windmill Chaumes with the magnificent panorama. At the town hall, Musée d'Art et Traditions Populaires.

Carsac de Gurçon: Church of the twelfth century

Chateau de Gurçon: Montaigne y visiting friends

Gurçon-Foix, whose feudal period house, now in ruins, overlooking a lake shaded, center of a major tourist complex inter-communal.

Montpeyroux: Church of the XII s .

Close to it, Montaigne bought for his younger brother a manor to which he gave the name of Matecoulon. The building of the sixteenth century was altered under the Directory and enhanced by a romantic park. Cave of the Girondins de Lagarde mound.

Saint-Médard-de-Gurçon: Bourg and its picturesque wooden hall. Important Gothic priory church. Château de la Coquille (XVIIth century). Windmills. Saint-Rémy-sur-Lidoire: in the church altar in gilded wood eighteenth century from the Chapel Annonciades of Bordeaux.

Fougueyrolles: Church of the fifteenth century Ségur castle in ruins and manor

Piqueterie eighteenth century

Lamothe-Montravel: in the town, turn of the twelfth century, remains of the castle of the Archbishops of Bordeaux. Old Port on the Dordogne, and in plain site of the Battle of Castillon.

Montcaret: Church of the XI and XII century built on an important Gallo-Roman villa, where we found beautiful mosaics, visible Tauriac Pierre National Museum, open to the public. Tour de Montaigne, a remnant of the ancient citadel of the name, razed in 1622.

Saint-Michel de Montaigne: Church of the twelfth and fifteenth century The heart of Montaigne is sealed in a pillar of the church. Beside the castle where he died and was born Michel de Montaigne (1534-1592). We visit the famous library which was written "Testing". A Bonnefare, Templar chapel overlooking the Dordogne. Saussignac Four are the common name "Saussignac. 1) Monestier where you can admire: The repaire noble Bouzely The twelfth century castle Vigiers of its octagonal dovecote.

The Romanesque church of Coutures Le Château de la Tour La Bastide, unfinished but it remains the home of the governor and the church with its bell tower dish.

2) Cageac-Rouillac: Castle (XVe s.) Castle Perrou 3) Razac-of-Saussignac where you will discover its Romanesque church and its castles and mansions of Bellevue (1650) The Foresters The Lardy Chabrier 4) Saussignac: Lenvège Towers (1240) The Fayolle Castle Castle Sausignac Summer exhibitions in the beautiful vaulted cellars of the castle of Saussignac, with exhibition-sales of products of the region, white and red wines, especially the "Saussignac" soft white, which is sweet and nervous at the same time, drinking on the liver fat the region and desserts.

SIGOULÈS

In Sigoulès, the vine is king. Appreciated by the Romans, it was propagated by monks in the eleventh century and developed under the influence of merchants Bergerac. The vineyard, mainly as "Bergerac" and "Monbazillac" was extended to North East Township. Monbazillac Castle (1550) which belongs to the cooperative, has become part of an attractive museum. On top of a hill, stands the mill Malfourat. At the other end of the township, the wine cooperative of Sigoulès second of Aquitaine, sells wines called "Bergerac" in over 12 countries. Tobacco and fruit crops have been developed in the region of Lamonzie-Saint-Martin and the station where Gardonne fruit Castang Grand shipped throughout Europe variés.Sigoulès infinitely products, picturesque town, develops a business and economic dynamics.

A leisure, many sporting activities from tennis ball-trap to allow the conduct of family holiday fun.

VILLAMBLARD

Villamblard is the capital of a district encompassing 17 municipalities: a historical point of view, the ruins of a beautiful castle or rather a beautiful castle of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with Renaissance renovation in 1660 but destroyed by fire in 1898, the chapel ground floor. Castle Montreal Issac (XIV and XV century). Note the sixteenth chapel, ruins of the castle to Roussille Douville, beautiful houses and churches from the twelfth to Montagnac La Crempse and Saint-Hilaire of Estissac; Ponsi Château de la Saint-Jean-d'Estignac, sui saw the canon of Salignac Fénelon, hall and castle built in 1250 by Henry III of England to Beauregard, château de Gaubert Clermont-de-Beauregard, Montclard castle, caves and cluzeau.

Villefranche-du-Périgord

Features beautiful Romanesque churches in Besse, Ayqueparse, and Prats Orliac Périgord, not to mention the curious church of St-Etienne des Landes, with its bell tower wall. It is on this block, located in the extreme south-east of the Périgord, necessary steps towards the Lot-et-Garonne that was founded Bastide de Villefranche-du-Périgord by Alphonse de Poitiers in 1261, on behalf of King of France St. Louis, his brother. His hall is facing the houses of thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. At the center of the house was renovated a building full of history that provides the framework for the museum "House of chestnut, chestnuts and mushrooms. Mounting museum and nature trail chestnut attest to the importance for the local economy, the forest and its products. This museum of agriculture at both national merit a visit.

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