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In south-west France, in the Dordogne-Périgord, the Bergerac area, a land of bastides and vineyards, welcomes you with remarkable heritage, fine unspoilt natural areas, the beauty of the Dordogne river, the richness of Périgord wines and food, a lively cultural life and many sports and leisure activities.
Formerly, the village occupied a strategic site on the border between English-held Guyenne and the kingdom of France.
This thirteenth-century fortified town founded by Edward I of England has seen some thirty of its buildings listed as historic monuments.
You discover Périgueux like leafing through a history book. Come and wind back the time machine and set off to discover our history.
Fortified in the Middle Ages because of its strategic position and nicknamed "the Pope's town" under the protection of Pope Clement V, Belvès keeps the remains of a tormented past: ramparts, Auditeur tower, bell belfry, town hall tower, former bell tower of the Dominican friars' convent, Hospital tower…
A village nestled at the foot of high troglodyte limestone cliffs, nicknamed the "world capital of prehistory" for the exceptional density of its Palaeolithic deposits.
Inhabited since the dawn of time, the caves and caverns formed perfect natural shelters for our ancestors, the Cro-Magnon people.