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Bergerac
! D6 ⌂ Dordogne ~ £ @
n 97 rue Neuve d’Argenson;
www.pays-bergerac-
tourisme.com
This small port, a tobacco
EXPERIENCE The Dordogne centre, spreads itself over
farming and commercial
both sides of the Dordogne.
Chief attractions are its
extraor dinary Musée du
Tabac (tobacco museum), and
its food and wine, which are
invariably excellent. Bergerac’s
most celebrated wine is
Monbazillac, a sweet white
wine, often drunk on cere­ the Centre International de
monial occasions. For an intro­ l’Art Pariétal provides state­ GREAT VIEW
duction to Bergerac’s wines, of the art replicas of the vivid Aerial View
visit the Maison des Vins, set cave pain tings of bulls, high­ For amazing views of
in a former monastery. antlered elk, bison and horses. the Dordogne take off in
It includes an interactive exhi­ a balloon with Périgord
Musée du Tabac bition using digital touch­ Dordogne Montgolfières
" ⌂ Maison Peyrarède, pl screens that retraces the (perigord-dordogne-
du Feu § 05 53 63 04 13 history of the discovery of montgolfieres.com).
# Mon–Sat ¢ Mon in winter, Lascaux, and a virtual reality
public hols tour of the caves. The café
serves excellent regional food. during the Hundred Years’
War. In 1575, it survived a
siege by Huguenot cavalry
10 "' - = and a six­day bombardment
Lascaux IV 11 by cannon. Religious life here
St-Amand-de-Coly ended after the Revolution.
! D6 ⌂ Lascaux Centre
International de l’Art ! D6 ⌂ Dordogne # Daily
Pariétal, Dordogne # Daily ∑ saint-amand-de-coly.org
¢ 1 Jan, 25 Dec ∑ lascaux.fr 12
This abbey church is an
Lascaux is the most famous of outstanding example of Dordogne Valley
the pre historic sites fortress architecture, built in ! D6 ⌂ Dordogne
located on the River the 12th to 13th centuries by ~ Bergerac £ Bergerac,
Vézère. Four boys Augustinian monks to protect Le Buisson de Cadouin
came across the their monastery. There are @ Beynac n Le Buisson de
caves and their two lines of defence: a high Cadouin; 05 53 22 06 09
astonishing stone rampart and, behind it,
Palaeolithic paint­ the arched tower of the church Probably no river in France
ings in 1940, and its itself, both built with very thick crosses so varied a landscape
importance as a walls. The tower looks more and such different geological
prehistoric site like a castle keep, and was formations as the Dordogne.
was soon seen. once pierced by arrow slits. Starting in deep granite
Since 1963, Inside, the church is beau­ gorges in the Massif Central,
Lascaux has tifully simple, with pure lines, it continues through fertile
been closed to a flat ribbed vault, 12th­cen­ lowlands, then enters the
the public due to tury cupola, a soaring nave limestone Causse country
deterioration, but and a stone floor sloping around Souillac. By the time
up to the altar. Yet even this
interior was arranged for
defence, with a gallery from
Statue of Cyrano which enemies within the Imposing Beynac castle,
de Bergerac in the building could be attacked. perched high above the
town of Bergerac St­Amand was dam aged Dordogne Valley

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