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Are you coming on holiday to Dordogne and wondering what are the best things to visit in Périgord Pourpre? Consult our pages which inform you about the best tourist sites , the unmissable ones, the castles and cultural visits when you are on vacation around Bergerac! A bit of culture, sport, leisure, gastronomy, for a busy holiday in the Dordogne.
Read our photo and video report on the Quai Cyrano, to understand what you will discover there and organize your visit to the Capital of Wine in Périgord.
This half-feudal, half-Renaissance building , surrounded by beautiful outbuildings, stands at the top of a hill overlooking the Crempse.
According to tradition, the city built on the St. Lawrence owes its name to the Sire of Montreal, Claude de Pontbriand, companion of Jacques Cartier during his second trip to Canada.
Consult the information sheet to find out more about timetables and prices.
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All the charm of Périgord at the gates of Bergerac . Built on the hill, the Château de Monbazillac watches over the prestigious vineyards of Monbazillac. Its elegant silhouette emerges from an ocean of vines. The cooperative cellar of Monbazillac, which restored it, owns it.
The tasting part, included in the visit, highlights this famous sweet white wine from Périgord. A visit that is both historical and gustatory! Consult the castle's information sheet to organize your visit.
The castle of Michel Eyquem , Lord of Montaigne (1533-1592) is located in Périgord , at the gates of Bergerac and Saint Émilion, in the heart of a majestic park.
On these places, since the 14th century, stands a castle which has been reworked several times, and partially rebuilt following the fire which ravaged it in 1885.
Inhabited private property, it cannot be visited. Only the Tower, spared by the flames, can be visited. Montaigne made it his refuge. On the ground floor, the chapel dedicated to Saint Michael. On the 1st floor, the room where he breathed his last. On the top floor, the Library where he forever fixed his Humanist thought through 57 Greek and Latin sentences painted on the ceiling beams, and where he wrote his Essays between 1571 and 1592.
The guided tour of the Tower is an invitation to follow in the footsteps of the famous philosopher, through a complete evocation of his life, his time, his work and his thought.
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Perched at the top of a "puy", the castle of Biron draws up the enormous mass of its towers and its defensive terraces on the edge of Périgord and Agenais.
Biron was the seat of one of the four baronies of Périgord.
The ticket combined with the cloister of the abbey of Cadouin allows you to have a slight reduction. Exhibitions are regularly held at the Château. Consult the information sheet to organize your visit.
Towers, walkways and machicolations bear witness to the power of the fortified castle that Lanquais was during the Hundred Years War. A symbol of power and grandeur in Périgord , a prestigious Renaissance palace attached was built by the builders of the Louvre , Palace of the Kings of France.
During the visit you will experience the daily life of the inhabitants of Lanquais from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
Discover their apartments furnished and decorated with sumptuous carved stone fireplaces, the old kitchens or the arms room . A return to a past still present in Lanquais.
The castle also serves as guest rooms. It also organizes medieval meals complete with period music and costumes.
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