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Dordogne’s 1 Monflanquin

36 Fortified Founded in 1256, this
small bastide makes an
Villages
excellent place to start
your tour of France’s
defensive architecture.
The Dordogne may be a picture of tranquillity It has the classic bastide
structure: a rectangular
now, but during the Middle Ages it was layout, a grid of straight
frequently a battleground. The Dordogne River streets, and an arcaded
marked an important strategic frontier between market square, with a
church tucked into one
English and French forces during the Hundred corner. Originally the
Years War, and the area’s many châteaux and town would have also
been ringed by ramparts,
fortified villages remain as a reminder of this but these have long since
war-torn past. Most distinctive of all are the been plundered. The cen-
tral place des Arcades still
bastide towns, encircled by defensive walls and hosts its weekly market
protected by sturdy ramparts.

/ · / · Vézère 0 ¸ Vayrac # \ Beaulieu-
# \
D47
D710
DORDOGNE # \ D840 # sur-Dordogne
# \ Martel
6
D803
Le Bugue # \ Les- Sarlat-la- Souillac / · # # \ Carennac
Eyzies
Canéda
# \ Beynac-et- 0¸
F G # \ D704A # \ Gouffre de
34
# \ Lalinde Dordogne Cazenac / · Dordogne 0 ¸ Padirac
/ ·
D840
D25
# \
N20
# \
#
/ · H # # 0 ¸
4
# \ Domme
#
D25
D940
# \ #
5
# \ Belvès p390 St-Martial- Rocamadour # \ Gramat
0 ¸ 0 ¸ # \ de-Nabirat # \ 0 ¸ 0 ¸ 0 ¸
D673
D677
D660
D840
D60
Monpazier Gourdon
# \ # 0¸
# D660 0 ¸
2
Villeréal 0 ¸ D802
# \ # D673 / ·
# \ #
3
0 ¸ Villefranche- 0¸ D25 LOT Figeac # \
D660
D272
du-Périgord 0 ¸ Célé
D653
l L # \ Bonaguil Puy- / · Parc Naturel Régional F G
A20
#
# \ Monflanquin
# 1
l'Évêque
Causses de Quercy
37
Fumel
# \ # \ # \ Castelfranc Cabrerets # \ Cajarc 0 ¸
/ ·
0 ¸ Lot D8 # \ St-Cirq # \ Lot D922
# \
D911
0 ¸ Cahors 0 ¸ Lapopie
D656
D911
LOT-ET- 0 ¸ / · Villefranche-
N20
D653
GARONNE / · du-Rouergue#
# \ # 7
D19
Aveyron
TARN-ET-GARONNE
m K
# \ #
Najac #
8
Caussade
# e 0 0 15 miles 30 km # \