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EXPERIENCE The Dordogne

1 SARLAT
SARLAT MARKETS
Every Wednesday, the
great Sarlat food
! D5 ⌂ Dordogne £ Ave de la Gare n 3 rue Tourny; 05 53 market is held in place
31 45 45; www.sarlat-tourisme.com de la Liberté; every
Thursday organic
Sarlat, which developed around a large Benedictine markets meet at 5pm;
abbey in the 11th century, possesses the highest and every Saturday
concentration of medieval, Renaissance and 17th- there is a full-scale fair
century façades of any town in France. Protected by law that attracts locals
since 1962, Sarlat now feels like an open-air museum. from all around. A daily
indoor market is held at
Eglise Sainte-Marie.
Sarlat was a prosperous town, a reflection of the privileged Sarlat lies at the heart
status it was granted in return for loyalty to the French crown of the nation’s foie gras
during the Hundred Years’ War. Behind nondescript rue de la and walnut trades and
République are narrow lanes and archways, and ancient, also specializes in black
ochre-coloured stone town houses rich in ornamental detail truffles, dug up in the
and topped with roofs of heavy limestone lauzes (tiles). Rue woods in January, and
des Consuls has some particularly fine examples of 15th-, 16th- wild mushrooms.
and 17th-century mansions, built for the town’s middle-class
merchants, magistrates and church officials. The town is also
famous for having one of the best food markets in France, while
many of its old buildings house shops selling an abundance of
foie gras, pâtés, sausissons, truffles and cheeses.

Behind nondescript rue de la République
are narrow lanes and archways, and Rue Jean-Jacques
ancient, ochre-coloured stone town Rousseau was the
houses rich in ornamental detail . town’s main street.

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