DESTINATION DORDOGNE

There are several airports in Dordogne serving destinations in France and England. TGV train services link the region with cities such as Paris, Lyon, Marseilles, and Lille in other regions of France. In addition there are ferry services that take passengers, vehicles and freight to Ireland, England and the Channel Islands.

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DISCOVER DORDOGNE: Bergerac, Chateau de Beynac, Chateau de Biron, Chateau de Hautefort, Dordogne River, Lascaux Caves, Perigord, Perigueux, Sarlat, Sarlat Cathedral,

DISCOVER BERGERAC Bergerac offers some of the finest wines in the Bordeaux region. The drainage is excellent as a result of its proximity to the Dordogne River. The town has an important tourist industry and features a tobacco museum, in which, unlike in all the other museums, no smoking is allowed. Bergerac is served by the Bergerac-Roumanière airport ...

CHATEAU DE BEYNAC The Château de Beynac is a castle situated in the commune of Beynac-et-Cazenac, in the Dordogne département of France. The castle is one of the best preserved and best-known in the region. This Middle Ages construction, with its austere appearance, is perched on top of a limestone cliff, dominating the town and the north bank of the Dordogne River ...

CHATEAU DE BIRON The Château de Biron is a castle in the French commune of Biron in the valley of the Lède, a tributary of the Lot River in the département of Dordogne in Périgord, part of the region of Aquitaine. It was the château from which the Gontaut-Biron took their name, their seat from the twelfth century. Biron was seized by the Cathars in 1211 ...

CHATEAU DE HAUTEFORT The Château d'Hautefort is a French château and gardens located in the town of Hautefort in the Dordogne Department of France.The chateau was reconstructed in the 17th century, and embellished with a Garden à la française. In 1853, the landscape architect, Count of Choulot, redid the gardens, adding a landscape garden, geometric flower gardens ...

THE DORDOGNE RIVER The Dordogne is a river in south-central and southwest France. The river rises on the flanks of Puy de Sancy in the mountains of Auvergne, from the confluence of two small torrents above the town of Mont-Dore: the Dore and the Dogne. It flows generally west about 500 km through the Limousin and Périgord regions before flowing into the Gironde ...

LASCAUX CAVES Lascaux is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings. The original caves are located near the village of Montignac, in the Dordogne département. They contain some of the best-known Upper Paleolithic art. These paintings are estimated to be 17,300 years old. They primarily consist of primitive images ...

THE PERIGORD The Périgord is a former province of France, which corresponds roughly to the current Dordogne département, now forming the northern part of the Aquitaine région. It is divided into four regions, the Périgord Noir (Black), the Périgord Blanc (White), the Périgord Vert (Green) and the Périgord Pourpre (Purple). It is one of the untouched regions of Europe ...

DISCOVER PERIGUEUX The main sights of Perigueux include an amphitheater, the remains of a temple of the Gallic goddess, Vesunna, and a luxurious Roman villa, called the Domus of Vesunna built around a garden courtyard surrounded by a colonnaded perisink. The cathedral of St Front was built after 1120 AD and restored in the 19th century ...

DISCOVER SARLAT Sarlat is one of the most attractive and alluring towns in southwest France - a medieval town that developed around a large Benedictine abbey of Carolingian origin. The medieval Sarlat Cathedral is dedicated to Saint Sacerdos. Because modern history has largely passed it by, Sarlat has remained preserved and one of the towns most representative of 14th century France ...

SARLAT CATHEDRAL Sarlat Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and national monument of France, situated in Sarlat-la-Canéda. The Diocese of Sarlat was created in 1317 with a number of others in the region in the aftermath of the suppression of the Albigensians. The new bishop of Sarlat was the abbot of the ancient Sarlat Abbey, the church of which became the cathedral ...

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