Department · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
300 monuments listed
Hautefort · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Rising from its rocky spur in the Périgord, the Château de Hautefort unfurls a sumptuous Renaissance silhouette beneath rooftops of burnished slate, encircled by immaculately geometric jardins à la française — a breathtaking vision at the very heart of the Dordogne.
Beynac-et-Cazenac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
The Château de Beynac is situated within the French commune of Beynac-et-Cazenac, in the département of the Dordogne. This château, listed as a historic monument, is among the best preserved and most celebrated in the region.
Castelnaud-la-Chapelle · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Perched high above the Dordogne, the medieval fortress of Castelnaud stood as one of the most formidable Cathar and English strongholds of the Hundred Years' War. Its museum of medieval warfare is unrivalled in Europe.
Le Buisson-de-Cadouin · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Founded in 1115 in the heart of the Périgord, the Cistercian abbey of Cadouin dazzles with its Flamboyant cloister of rare delicacy and its turbulent history linked to a mysterious relic.
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Beneath the rock shelter of Laugerie-Basse, the Vézère reveals one of the richest Magdalenian deposits in the world: sculpted ivories, harpoons and venus figurines bear witness to a fascinating humanity 15,000 years old.
Saint-Rabier · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the Perigordian cliffs, the grotte du Peyrat offers a striking testimony to the art and rites of the Upper Palaeolithic, listed as a Monument Historique for the richness of its prehistoric remains.
Nestled in the Vézère valley, the grotte de Cazelles contains around forty Palaeolithic rock figures forming an organised sanctuary of rare coherence, listed as a Monument Historique in 2023.
Laugerie-Haute is a window on ancient humanity, revealing twenty millennia of Magdalenian occupation beneath its rock shelters, yielding exceptional carved flints and daggers in the heart of the Vézère valley.
Le Bugue · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the very edge of the Périgord noir, the grotte de Bara-Bahau conceals an engraved bestiary some 15,000 years old: bisons, bears and horses etched with flint onto immaculate limestone, in a silence of absolute prehistory.
Sourzac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Engraved treasure of the Périgord, the grotte de Gabillou conceals a Palaeolithic bestiary of exceptional density: more than 200 animal and human figures incised into the rock some 15,000 years ago.
Concealed in the valley of the Vézère, the Magdalenian rock sanctuary of the grotte des Combarelles II contains Palaeolithic engravings of striking delicacy, silent witnesses to a humanity 13,000 years old.
Sergeac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A prehistoric sanctuary in the Vézère valley, the Blanchard shelter contains some of the oldest Aurignacian remains in Europe, silent witnesses to a humanity in the throes of a symbolic awakening 35,000 years ago.
Savignac-de-Miremont · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Sanctuary of primitive humanity, the La Ferrassie rock shelter has been yielding unique Neanderthal remains since 1896: engraved burials, bones and Mousterian tools revealing the earliest known funerary rituals.
Nestled in the Vézère's Vésinian cliffs, the grotte de Cournazac contains Palaeolithic remains of exceptional density, silent witnesses to a vanished humanity at the heart of the world capital of Prehistory.
Castels · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the heart of the Périgord Noir, the Roc Pointu reveals the secrets of a bygone humanity: this Palaeolithic site, listed among the Monuments Historiques, contains bone remains and lithic industries of a remarkable stratigraphic density.
Nestled in the Vézère valley's Vésuviennes cliffs, the grotte de Nancy contains Magdalenian cave art of rare intimacy — a prehistoric sanctuary beyond time, listed as a Monument Historique.
At the heart of the Vézère valley, the grotte de la Croze conceals Palaeolithic engravings of a striking sobriety, silent witnesses to a humanity more than 15,000 years old.
Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Deep in the heart of the Dordogne, the grotte de Rouffignac conceals the largest bestiary of mammoths in world cave art: 150 pachyderms drawn more than 13,000 years ago.
Bayac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Eponymous of a worldwide Gravettian culture, this Périgordian site, listed in 1945, has been yielding burins, points and ornaments for over a century, revealing 27,000 years of human presence.
Nestled in the limestone cliffs of the Vézère, the abri Labattut reveals to the initiated eye Palaeolithic engravings and sculptures of rare intensity, silent witnesses to a humanity 20,000 years old.
Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the edges of the Vézère valley, the deposit of la Rochette has been yielding exceptional Palaeolithic remains since the 19th century, silent witnesses to tens of millennia of human occupation in Périgord.
Carsac-Aillac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Perched on a rocky spur overlooking the valley of the Dordogne, the Pech de la Boissière reveals the secrets of Upper Palaeolithic men, silent witnesses of a Périgordian prehistory of exceptional richness.
Bourniquel · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A major Solutrean site in Périgord, the Malpas de Bourniquel reveals the secrets of a lithic industry of rare elegance, fashioned over 20,000 years ago in the heart of the Couze valley.
Tursac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestling in the cliffs of the Vézère valley, the Roc du Barbeau reveals the secrets of an uninterrupted human presence since the Upper Palaeolithic, on the doorstep of the world capital of prehistory.
Valojoulx · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
On the edge of the Périgord Noir, the Combe site reveals exceptionally rich Palaeolithic remains, silent witnesses to tens of thousands of years of human occupation in the Vézère valley.
Marquay · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Unique of its kind, the sculpted frieze of Cap-Blanc offers 13 metres of Palaeolithic high-reliefs of striking power — the only sanctuary of this type open to the public in France.
Nestled in the limestone rock of the Vézère valley, the Vignaud deposit contains remains from the Mousterian and the Upper Palaeolithic, silent witnesses to 80,000 years of human occupation at the heart of the world's cradle of prehistory.
Nestled in the limestone cliffs of Les Eyzies, the grotte d'Abzac contains remains from the Upper Palaeolithic, silent testimonies of a prehistoric humanity that sculpted and inhabited these walls more than 15,000 years ago.
Cradle of modern humanity in the Périgord: the abri de Cro-Magnon, where the first remains of European Homo sapiens were discovered in 1868, revolutionised our understanding of human origins for ever.
Carved into the rock more than 30,000 years ago, the abri Cellier au Ruth offers an exceptional testament to Aurignacian art: decorated blocks featuring animal figures and vulvas among the oldest in Europe.
Masterpiece of Magdalenian cave art, Font-de-Gaume contains more than 230 polychrome figures — bison, mammoths, reindeer — painted 17,000 years ago. One of the last decorated prehistoric caves still open to the public in France.
Domme · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestling in the cliffs of the Dordogne, the Pigeonnier cave in Domme is a striking example of Perigordian cave art, with mammoths, cattle and horses carved over 15,000 years ago.
Nestled in the golden cliffs of the Vézère, the abri Pagès du Ruth reveals the silent traces of Magdalenian humanity: rock engravings, bone remains and lithic tools of rare density.
Rupestrian sanctuary of the Périgord noir, Laussel conceals one of the oldest feminine representations in human history: the Vénus à la Corne, sculpted 25,000 years ago in limestone rock.
In the bowels of the Périgord, the Cussac cave conceals an engraved masterpiece from the Upper Palaeolithic: mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and mysterious human figures stand alongside 25,000-year-old burials.
Nestled in the limestone cliffs of the Vézère, the grotte de La Forêt at Tursac offers a striking testament to Magdalenian cave art, with its animal engravings preserved for more than 12,000 years.
At the heart of Les Eyzies, the Pataud site reveals 20,000 years of Aurignacian and Perigordian occupation in an exceptional rock shelter, a veritable open book on prehistoric humanity.
Monpazier · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
In the heart of the royal bastide town of Monpazier, the medieval market hall with its golden stone arcades stands in the most beautiful cornered square in Périgord. An intact 13th-century masterpiece.
Nestling in the limestone cliffs of the Vézère, the Oreille d'Enfer is home to an exceptional Palaeolithic site and engraved remains that bear witness to the presence of humans over 15,000 years ago.
A rock sanctuary in the Périgord Noir, the Mouthe cave reveals a 15,000-year-old parietal bestiary: bison, mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses emerge from the limestone walls in primordial darkness.
Mauzens-et-Miremont · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the heart of the Périgord Noir, the deposit of la Faurelie reveals the secrets of the Upper Palaeolithic: a rock art and settlement site listed as a Historic Monument since 1930, bearing witness to humanity's first artists.
At the gateway to Les Eyzies, la Micoque reveals 400,000 years of humanity within a uniquely stratified deposit, the cradle of a Palaeolithic civilisation that gave its name to an entire culture.
Nestling beneath a rocky overhang in the Vézère valley, the Abri du Facteur in Tursac reveals the secrets of the Magdalenians: engravings, refined tools and the remains of a humanity 15,000 years old.
Montignac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
In the heart of the Périgord Noir, the Régourdou reveals the secrets of a Neanderthal dating back 70,000 years, discovered in the context of an intentional burial that shook the world of palaeoanthropology.
An exceptional vestige of the Upper Palaeolithic, the abri Castanet at Sergeac contains some of the oldest artistic expressions of humanity, engraved and painted in the rock more than 35,000 years ago.
Nestling in the Vézère valley, the La Rochette prehistoric site reveals 80,000 years of human occupation, from the Mousterian to the Magdalenian, in one of the world's cradles of prehistory.
The world cradle of Mousterian culture, this Périgord site reveals 100,000 years of Neanderthal occupation in the heart of the Vézère valley, a founding site of prehistory worldwide.
Vézac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the cliffs of the Vézère, the Grotte du Roc à Vézac reveals a Magdalenian sanctuary of rare intensity: parietal engravings and bas-relief sculptures bear witness to a spirituality 15,000 years old.
The cradle of Magdalenian culture, this Perigordian site cut into the cliffs reveals 15,000 years of human history: rock engravings, flint tools and bones bear witness to a civilisation of hunters at the peak of its art.
At the heart of the Vézère valley, the Combarelles I caves contain one of the largest collections of parietal engravings in the world: more than 600 Magdalenian figures traced 13,000 years ago in the depths of the rock.
Nestled in the cliff face of the Vézère, the Abri du Poisson contains one of the oldest zoomorphic bas-reliefs in the world: a salmon engraved 25,000 years ago with breathtaking anatomical precision.
Périgueux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Jewel of Périgord heritage, the MAAP holds one of the richest prehistoric collections in France, bringing together Gallo-Roman archaeology, decorative arts and fine arts in the heart of the ancient Vesunna.
Masterpiece of prehistoric humanity, Lascaux reveals 600 animal representations dating back 17,000 years, painted with astonishing mastery in the depths of the Dordogne.
At the gates of Les Eyzies, this decorated cave from the Middle Bronze Age yields rock art remains of rare sobriety, a silent testimony to a prehistoric humanity that was already fashioning the Périgordian limestone into a sanctuary.
Nestled in the valley of the Vézère, the prehistoric site of Liveyre reveals at Tursac two ages of humanity: from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Final Bronze Age, a rare testament to prehistoric Périgord.
At the gateway to Les Eyzies, the abri Audi opens onto two stone ages, from the Mousterian to the Perigordian, offering an exceptional testimony to human continuity in the Vézère valley.
Montcaret · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the heart of the Périgord, an exceptional Gallo-Roman villa reveals its baths adorned with intact polychrome mosaics — one of the best-preserved ancient bathing complexes in the South-West.
Vitrac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A jewel of vernacular construction in the Périgord, this dry-stone hut at Pech Lauzier astounds with its unique hull-shaped roof, found nowhere else in the world, transitioning from a square to a circle by means of a corbelled vault of breathtaking ingenuity.
Saint-Vincent-le-Paluel · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A jewel of Périgord vernacular architecture, this dry-stone hut with its corbelled vault and conical crown embodies the rural soul of the Périgord Noir, a living vestige of the old wine-growing regions.
Saint-Cirq · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Deep in the heart of the Périgord, the Grotte du Sorcier contains Magdalenian engravings of remarkable power: horses, bison, and a mysterious human figure carved into the rock more than 13,000 years ago.
Sarlat-la-Canéda · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A Renaissance jewel of Sarlat, the hôtel de Gisson displays its hexagonal staircase tower and its flamboyant decoration at the heart of the medieval city, bearing witness to the prestige of the Périgord magistracy.
Saint-Geyrac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Watching over the Périgord since the 12th century, the church of Saint-Cyr de Saint-Geyrac fascinates with its imposing quadrangular bell tower-porch and its Gothic remains of rare rural coherence.
Busserolles · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord Vert, the église Saint-Martial de Busserolles reveals a rare marriage between the Romanesque austerity of the twelfth century and Flamboyant Gothic elegance, a silent witness to ten centuries of rural faith.
Sainte-Alvère · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Built between 1775 and 1783 on the ruins of a Romanesque sanctuary, the church of Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens in Sainte-Alvère displays an elegant classical sobriety in the heart of the Périgord Blanc region, crowned by a bell tower with a singular history.
Limeyrat · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A Neolithic vestige watching over the forests of the Périgord, this dolmen de Limeyrat bears witness to a funerary art some 5,000 years old. Its imposing limestone slabs, erected in the heart of the Dordogne, invite one on a journey to the origins of humanity.
Bussac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A fortified church from the 12th century nestled in the Périgord, Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Bussac combines Romanesque spirituality with medieval defensive ingenuity: a dome on pendentives, a keep-belfry pierced with arrow slits, and an integrated wall walk.
Atur · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A Romanesque jewel of the Périgord, the église Notre-Dame d'Atur reveals a sculpted porch of rare elegance and an octagonal cupola that bear witness to the architectural genius of the 12th and 13th centuries.
Saint-Martin-l'Astier · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord, the église Saint-Martin de Saint-Martin-l'Astier displays its Romanesque volumes with a sober medieval elegance, a silent testimony to a rural faith rooted in stone since the Middle Ages.
Cherveix-Cubas · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Rare medieval lantern of the dead standing in the cemetery of Cherveix-Cubas, this hollow ashlar stone column once illuminated the Périgord night with its silent flame, an eternal guardian of the departed.
Saint-Julien-de-Lampon · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord Noir, the église Saint-Julien de Lampon preserves rare 16th-century mural paintings adorning its chancel vault — a discreet medieval treasure mentioned as early as 1143.
Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the edge of the Périgord vert, the château des Bernardières combines a 12th-century keep, a medieval tower and Louis XIII terraces, bearing witness to a history in which Duguesclin and a future Ottoman admiral crossed paths.
Léguillac-de-Cercles · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A Romanesque gem of the Périgord dating from the 12th century, the église Saint-Maurice de Léguillac-de-Cercles combines domes on pendentives and an arcaded bell tower, all enclosed by a medieval wall walk bearing witness to 15th-century fortifications.
Saint-Cyprien · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Majestic Périgordian church from the 13th and 14th centuries, Saint-Cyprien reveals a single nave with sumptuous ribbed groin vaults and a square bell tower whose original asymmetry reveals the secrets of a medieval building site.
At the heart of the Périgord Noir, the halle de Cadouin raises its mediaeval arcades facing the Cistercian abbey. A masterpiece of traditional timber framing listed as a Monument Historique, it embodies the mercantile spirit of a timeless pilgrimage village.
Sainte-Foy-de-Longas · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Perched on the heights of the Périgord, the ruins of the château de Longas preserve the imprint of a medieval noble retreat: a wall walk on corbels, a stair tower and dormer windows bear witness to a late Gothic elegance.
Brantôme · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Carved into the Périgord rock, the medieval troglodytic fortress of Cluzeau de Chambrebrune reveals, over 45 metres, a defensive labyrinth of striking ingenuity: pitfall traps, arrow slits, and grain silos hewn directly into the limestone.
Saint-Jean-d'Eyraud · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord, this small twelfth-century Romanesque church captivates with its squat bell tower resting on a cupola and its semicircular arched porch of a sober medieval elegance.
Montferrand-du-Périgord · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Sentinel of stone standing upon its Périgord promontory, Montferrand still yields the remains of its imposing square keep from the 12th century and its concentric enclosures, witnesses to a fierce medieval power.
Aubas · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Built in the 17th century by the Ferrières de Sauveboeuf family, this Périgord château with a square courtyard sheltered the childhood of Mirabeau before becoming a restored jewel of the Oberkampf family in the 19th century.
Mareuil · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Formerly a barony of Périgord, the château de Mareuil reveals its triangular layout flanked by mediaeval towers and a square keep housing a monumental staircase. Birthplace of the troubadour Arnault de Mareuil.
Majestic ruin immersed in the forests of the Périgord, the château de l'Herm captivates with its sculpted Renaissance doorways and its tragic fate immortalised by Eugène Le Roy in 'Jacquou le Croquant'.
Saint-Geniès · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Jewel of Romanesque and Gothic architecture in the Périgord Noir, the église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption reveals a twelfth-century apse of rare elegance, crowned with finely sculpted arcading on colonnettes.
Nestled in the Périgord Noir, this 15th-century church captivates with its elegant four-bay wall belfry and its polygonal chancel. A flamboyant Gothic architecture preserving the secrets of a place of worship with a thousand-year history.
Daglan · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the wooded hills of the Périgord Noir, the château de Peyruzel reveals an authentic medieval silhouette, with crenellated towers and golden limestone walls, bearing witness to the lordly way of life in the Dordogne.
Preyssac-d'Excideuil · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Standing watch over the Périgord since the 13th century, Notre-Dame de la Purification captivates with its Romanesque wall belfry and its flamboyant porch with sculpted colonnettes, a discreet gem of a preserved medieval Dordogne.
Coursac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the Périgord, this 15th–16th century manor house features a Gothic round tower, a chapel with radiating vaults, and a dovecote on columns — a treasure of rural Dordogne architecture.
Saint-Crépin-et-Carlucet · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A Sarladais manor house dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, the château de Cipières reveals its hexagonal Renaissance tower and its roofs of golden lauze stone, symbols of a preserved Périgord Noir at the heart of the Dordogne valley.
Watching over the Périgord since the 14th century, the château de Bayac combines an imposing round tower topped with a pepper-pot roof, a wall walk supported by massive corbels, and an elegant Mansart-style main building — five centuries of architecture united in a single glance.
Lusignac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Standing at the heart of the Périgord Vert, the église Saint-Eutrope de Lusignac reveals a Romanesque bell tower adorned with a rare medieval bretèche and an ancestral well carved directly into the chevet — silent witnesses to ten centuries of rural history.
Jewel of Romanesque Périgord, the église Saint-Christophe harbours thousand-year-old mural paintings, including a Gothic Pantocrator and eleventh-century frescoes of rare intensity. An intimate sanctuary steeped in eternity.
Built between 1829 and 1839 by Louis Catoire, Périgueux's Palais de Justice is striking for its neoclassical tetrastyle temple façade, combining Roman rigour and Périgordian elegance in the heart of the city.
Bergerac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Once the intellectual heart of Bergerac, this claustral complex dating from the 17th and 18th centuries blends flat Périgord bricks with pillared galleries in an atmosphere of studious tranquillity inherited from the training of clergymen.
Teyjat · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord Vert, the église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens de Teyjat displays a restrained Périgordian Romanesque style inherited from the 12th century, enriched by successive building campaigns that make it a precious palimpsest of rural sacred art.
Champagne-et-Fontaine · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Unsung gem of the Périgord Vert, Clauzuroux unfolds its Louis XIV façades facing the river Pude, between a cobbled courtyard, a mill with its mechanism intact, and a water staircase of rare elegance.
Mouleydier · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A jewel of 19th-century river engineering, the canal de Lalinde à Tuilières winds along the Dordogne with its monumental locks and its listed lock-keepers' cottages, witnesses to a golden age of boating.
Montagnac-d'Auberoche · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A Romanesque and Gothic gem of the Périgord, the église Saint-Marc de Montagnac-d'Auberoche reveals eight centuries of sacred architecture, from its Romanesque apse to its elegant pointed arch doorway with prismatic mouldings.
An Empire residence nestling in the meandering Dordogne, Château de Caudon embodies the heritage of a family that forged the French Civil Code - between boxwood gardens, an orangery-workshop and French history.
Saint-Laurent-des-Hommes · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Born in the 12th century, ransacked by the Wars of Religion, the église Saint-Laurent des Hommes bears in its stones and Renaissance vaults the living scars of the history of the Périgord.
Mareuil-en-Périgord · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Deep in the heart of the Périgord, the grotte de Fronsac conceals an engraved sanctuary from the Upper Palaeolithic, a silent witness to Magdalenian cave art amongst the oldest in France.
Molières · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the heart of the bastide of Molières, this medieval house from the 14th century displays its broken ogival arcades with rare grace, offering one of the best-preserved examples of Gothic architecture in the Périgord.
Sarliac-sur-l'Isle · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Sanctuary of deep time, the Combe Saunière cave offers in Périgord a rare testimony: a near-continuous Palaeolithic habitat covering all of the major regional prehistoric cultures.
Saint-Pantaly-d'Ans · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A seigniorial vestige from the early 17th century nestling in the heart of the Périgord Vert, Château de Marqueyssac embodies the architectural ambitions of the powerful Hautefort family, set in unspoilt countryside.
Saint-Capraise-de-Lalinde · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Masterpiece of nineteenth-century hydraulic engineering, the canal de Lalinde and its rare dry dock bear witness to the golden age of Dordogne river navigation, hewn into the rock to tame the dangerous rapids of the Dordogne.
Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Jewel of Romanesque architecture in the Périgord Vert, the église Saint-Jacques de Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac blends a mediaeval cupola with Renaissance decoration in a rare architectural dialogue, bearing witness to eight centuries of faith and stone.
Nestled in the forests of the Périgord Noir, the dolmen de Giverzac is a Neolithic vestige that raises its limestone slabs on a hillside near Domme, a silent testament to a society of farmer-builders more than 4,000 years old.
Villac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord, the église Saint-Waast de Villac conceals a fascinating secret: it honours a saint from the North born here, catechist of Clovis, whose medieval memory is steeped into every stone.
Montpeyroux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Jewel of Romanesque architecture in the Périgord, the église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens de Montpeyroux surprises visitors with its apse adorned with seven arcades featuring archivolt mouldings decorated with billet ornament, and its central tower belfry crowned by a rare oval dome on pendentives.
Montpon-Ménestérol · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Founded in the 14th century in the bocage périgourdin, the chartreuse de Vauclaire is a medieval monastic gem where Carthusian silence still permeates the ruins of its cloister and stone cells.
Cercles · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Set in the heart of the Périgord Vert region, the church of Saint-Cybard de Cercles is a sober 12th-century Romanesque gem, listed as one of France's first historic monuments in 1840.
Brantôme-en-Périgord · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in a meander of the Dronne, the abbaye de Brantôme blends troglodyte caves, a mediaeval cloister and a baroque abbatial residence — a gem of the Périgord, listed as early as 1840.
Beaumont · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the heart of the Bastide de Beaumont-du-Périgord, this medieval covered market unfolds its stone arcades beneath a centuries-old timber frame, a living testament to the mercantile spirit of the bastides of the Périgord.
La Bachellerie · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestling in a valley in the Périgord region, the Chartreuse des Fraux boasts an elegant U-shaped layout dating from the late 18th century, with a sober main building and pavilions topped with slate roofs - a French art of living etched in stone.
Cause-de-Clérans · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
In the heart of the Périgord region, this 12th-century Romanesque church boasts an exceptionally elegant bell tower with six colonnettes and a dome decorated with pillars carved with mysterious medieval figures.
Carlux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord Noir, the église Sainte-Catherine de Carlux reveals the soul of a medieval Périgordine religious architecture, with its characteristic clocher-mur and its golden stones sculpted by the centuries.
Lanquais · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the crossroads of the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, Lanquais blends a crenellated keep from the 15th century and a classical palace born of the royal love affairs of Henri II — a double château, unfinished and fascinating.
A Romanesque jewel of the Périgord, the church of Urval combines spirituality and defence: its columns of black marble and its residential tower with arrow slits make it a unique sacred fortress in the Dordogne.
Lamothe-Montravel · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
On the borders of the Dordogne and the Gironde, this episcopal manor blends medieval austerity with Renaissance refinement: a large tower with a wall walk, a doorway with a triangular pediment, and windows with sculpted mullions.
Boulazac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Formerly the château de la Baconie, renamed Lieu-Dieu in 1387 during a sacred episode of the Hundred Years' War, this Périgordian medieval manor retains its round towers, moat and an exceptional seventeenth-century octagonal dovecote.
At the heart of Périgueux, this Romanesque medieval house from the 13th century conceals within it a Gothic mural painting of rare intimacy and three centuries of history layered between its stone walls.
Monsaguel · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A domestic fortress in Périgord, the Aubespin manor house has an L-shaped layout flanked by two defensive towers, a striking reminder of the Wars of Religion that marked the Dordogne in the 16th century.
Florimont-Gaumier · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Fortress of faith in Périgord Noir: this Romanesque church from the 12th century, transformed into a defensive stronghold during the Hundred Years' War, reveals a history in which the sacred and the military become intertwined.
Terrasson-Lavilledieu · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A discreet remnant of a medieval priory, the chapelle Notre-Dame du Mouret reveals in Terrasson-Lavilledieu a Romanesque portal with three orders reworked over three centuries, in which all the evolutions of the medieval Périgord can be read like a palimpsest.
In Montignac, home to the caves of Lascaux, the medieval bell tower of Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens defies the centuries: the sole Gothic remnant of a church entirely rebuilt in the 20th century, it embodies the devout memory of the Vézère.
Saint-Astier · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the gates of Saint-Astier, this Chapelle des Bois conceals beneath its stones the grotto of a sixth-century hermit and a miraculous fountain, living witnesses to a thousand-year-old Périgordin faith.
Trémolat · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Jewel of Périgordian Romanesque art, the église Saint-Nicolas de Trémolat astonishes with its domes on pendentives and its buttresses pierced with windows — a remarkably rare feat of constructive daring from the twelfth century.
La Chapelle-Faucher · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Formerly a hospitaller priory nestled in the Périgord Vert, Notre-Dame de Puymartin captivates with its mysterious mediaeval sculptures and its Romanesque church of refined austerity, a silent witness to eight centuries of history.
A stone sentinel standing at the gates of the royal bastide of Monpazier, this fortified gateway from the 13th century embodies the military rigour and restrained elegance of medieval architecture in the Périgord Noir.
Saint-Raphaël · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
In the heart of the Périgord region, the church of Saint-Raphaël reveals a rural Romanesque style of rare sincerity: golden limestone, a bell tower-wall and barrel vaults typical of the Périgord Middle Ages.
Jumilhac-le-Grand · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Rising from the forests of the Périgord, Jumilhac-le-Grand captivates with its rooftops bristling with dormers, weathervanes and ornate chimneys — a fairytale château dating from the 15th to the 17th century, listed as a Monument historique.
Colombier · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Perched on a rocky outcrop in the Dordogne, this 12th-century Romanesque church combines a massive bell tower and wall with medieval vaults and a font carved from an authentic Roman column.
At the heart of the Périgord Noir, this 15th-century townhouse embodies the Flamboyant Gothic elegance of Sarlat, an exceptional town where the golden stone tells five centuries of bourgeois and mercantile history.
In the heart of the Périgord region, this mysterious residence has inherited the Templar heritage of the Andrivault commandery: pebble flooring with esoteric symbols, medieval holy water font and listed chapel door.
Buried beneath the cliffs of Domme, the grotte du Mammouth reveals its Palaeolithic secrets: rock engravings more than 15,000 years old, profoundly moving testimonies of nascent humanity at the heart of the Périgord Noir.
Saint-Pierre-de-Côle · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Perched on a rocky outcrop in Périgord Vert, the ruins of Bruzac exude a striking melancholy: gutted towers, an isolated Gothic chapel and a panoramic view over the valley of the Cole together form a scene of rare power.
Saint-Marcory · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the heart of the Périgord, the église Saint-Marcory reveals a unique fortified chevet: its defensive parapet with loopholes, a striking mediaeval remnant, bears witness to the tribulations of the Hundred Years' War.
Bouzic · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the Périgord Noir, this twelfth-century Romanesque church reveals a chancel with five blind arcades and a sculpted capital featuring inverted angels of rare mediaeval expressiveness.
Saint-Seurin-de-Prats · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Elegant neoclassical manor house of the Périgord, the château de Prats reveals a remarkable peristyle with Ionic columns and a monumental vestibule, refined testaments to the Empire and the Restoration on the banks of the Dordogne.
Saint-Georges-de-Montclard · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the Périgord, this 16th-century manor reveals a rare square échauguette and majestic Renaissance fireplaces, understated witnesses to a preserved Périgordian seigneurial architecture.
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord, the église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Sourzac gracefully blends fifteenth-century flamboyant Gothic with Romanesque remnants, a rare testament to a thousand years of spiritual continuity.
Bourdeilles · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the heart of Bourdeilles, the Maison du Sénéchal reveals five centuries of Périgordian architecture: from the Gothic dwelling with stone crockets to the balustraded terrace overlooking former moats.
Cénac-et-Saint-Julien · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
The Romanesque jewel of the Périgord Noir, the church at Cénac boasts a 12th-century choir with carved capitals of rare finesse, a striking vestige of a prior abbey church that defied the centuries and the Wars of Religion.
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord Vert, this Romanesque church from the 11th and 12th centuries captivates with its cul-de-four apse and its historiated capitals of rare expressiveness, silent witnesses to Saintonge Romanesque art at its peak.
Saint-Cyr-les-Champagnes · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the Périgord Vert, this Romanesque church from the 11th–12th centuries astonishes with its octagonal dome and its pointed-arch voussoir doorway adorned with sculpted capitals of rare expressiveness.
Carsac-de-Gurson · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Perched on a rocky spur in the Périgord, the ruins of Gurcon preserve the memory of a thousand-year-old fortress linked to Montaigne, the kings of England and the house of Foix.
Nestled in the Périgord Noir, this twelfth-century Romanesque priory combines a seven-sided apse of rare elegance, sculpted capitals, and a partially altered porch-tower, listed as a Monument Historique.
Belvès · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Perched on the medieval ramparts of Belvès, this fifteenth-century ovoid tower crowned with scalloped pepper-pot roofs captivates with its elegant silhouette and its superimposition of two ages of stone.
In the heart of the Périgord Noir region, the Croix de la Bouquerie stands on its elegant Louis XIV base on the cobbles of Sarlat, a discreet but precious testimony to 17th-century devotion and Baroque refinement.
At the edges of the Périgord Noir, this 16th-century Renaissance manor house was the birthplace of Étienne de La Boétie, the illustrious friend of Montaigne and author of the Discours de la servitude volontaire.
In the heart of Sarlat, the former chapel of the Récollets reveals a Baroque portal with interrupted pediment and a Louis XIII cloister of rare elegance, forgotten jewels of the Périgord Noir.
Sainte-Croix · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
On the borders of Périgord, the château de Sainte-Croix displays an elegant neoclassical façade from the late 18th century, crowned by a triangular pediment and preceded by a monumental porch with carefully crafted rustication.
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord Noir, the château de Saint-Geniès unfolds its Renaissance U-shaped plan around an open courtyard, where an elegant square staircase tower with a spiral staircase converses with façades steeped in mediaeval history.
Saint-Romain-de-Monpazier · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord Noir, this twelfth-century fortified church blends sacred art and military strategy: its chancel is housed within a defensive tower, and a watchtower chamber still keeps watch above the vaults.
Paunat · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A rare medieval residence in Périgord, the house known as La Recette in Paunat boasts an exceptional Périgord Romanesque clerestory and a covered passageway with pointed arches, both of which bear witness to the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries.
Calviac-en-Périgord · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A discreet stone sentinel of the Périgord Noir, the église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens de Calviac-en-Périgord blends Romanesque arcatures from the 12th century with a fortified tower-belfry from the 15th, a rare testament to a medieval faith still standing today.
Saint-Nexans · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Heir to a twelfth-century Templar commandery, the église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Nexans captivates with its dome on pendentives and its sculpted capitals of rare refinement, living witnesses to the presence of the Knights Templar in Périgord.
At the heart of medieval Périgueux, the Maison du Pâtissier reveals a Gothic corner turret, a corbelled balcony and a squinch doorway of rare elegance — a discreet gem of Périgourdine civic architecture.
In the limestone cliffs of Bourdeilles, the grotte des Bernoux conceals Palaeolithic engravings of striking beauty: mammoths, rhinoceroses and bears immortalised by artists who lived more than 20,000 years ago.
Saint-Avit-Sénieur · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the heart of the Périgord, the former abbey of Saint-Avit-Sénieur reveals its striking Romanesque ruins: a fortified monastery from the 12th century linked to kings of France and to the legend of a Visigoth hermit saint.
Mediaeval defensive perimeter of Sarlat, these fourteenth-century remains bear witness to the power of the Périgourdine city, with their semi-circular towers and their ochre limestone construction characteristic of the Périgord noir.
Sanctuary rupestre magdalénien de la Dordogne, the grotte de la Mairie at Teyjat reveals its secrets through animal engravings of a staggering precision dating back 13,000 years, ranked among the masterpieces of Palaeolithic art.
Lalinde · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord, the église Sainte-Colombe de Lalinde reveals a striking medieval nave, a Romanesque square bell tower and a gabled façade built up over the centuries — a listed gem on the banks of the Dordogne.
Clinging to the sheer face of a cliff on the Vézère, the fort de Tursac is a vertiginous medieval fortress in the Périgord noir, an unassailable guardian of a prehistoric valley since the 14th century.
Nestled in the cliffs of the Périgord Noir, the grotte de Puymartin contains Palaeolithic cave art remains of exceptional density, silent witnesses to a humanity that was already painting its dreams on stone.
Saint-Martial-Viveyrol · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Spiritual fortress of the Périgord, the église Saint-Martial de Saint-Martial-Viveyrol reveals its medieval battlements and hoardings: an extraordinary Romanesque fortified church, silent guardian of the Dordogne.
Nestled in the limestone cliffs of the Vézère valley, the grotte de Lachaud reveals the secrets of Magdalenian artists: a Palaeolithic rock sanctuary listed as a Monument Historique since 1948.
Couze-et-Saint-Front · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Surviving from an age-old tradition, the Moulin de Larroque perpetuates in Couze-et-Saint-Front the art of artisanal papermaking, a living testament to a valley that once produced the paper for the whole of Aquitaine.
Chancelade · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A Palaeolithic rock shelter listed as a Historic Monument, Raymonden I in Chancelade is one of the most precious testimonies to Magdalenian art and funerary practices in Périgord.
Villars · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Divine fortress in the heart of the Périgord Vert: the church of Villars combines sixteenth-century flamboyant Gothic vaulting, a defensive échauguette, and a thousand-year-old Romanesque bell tower in a striking architectural dialogue.
In Terrasson-Lavilledieu, a deeply moving war memorial depicts not glorious heroes, but a broken family: an amputee father, a peasant mother, and a little girl carrying the hope of a world to be rebuilt.
Sentinel of stone standing at the heart of Belvès since the 13th century, this medieval belfry with its austere arrow slits still watches over one of the most beautiful bastides of the Périgord Noir.
Segonzac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A medieval fortress in the Périgord Noir, La Martinie rises its four machicolated towers above an enclosed courtyard, combining 13th-century feudal austerity with the Renaissance grace of a 17th-century arcaded gallery.
Sainte-Orse · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Perched in the Périgord Blanc region, the church of Saint-Ours de Sainte-Orse features a 30-metre Romanesque nave beneath a rebuilt bell tower, a living testimony to medieval piety in the 12th century.
In the heart of the Périgord region, the Maison Duchêne features a Doric portico with six columns and an ovoid dome of rare neo-classical elegance, a discreet jewel of the First Empire listed as a Historic Monument.
Saint-Méard-de-Gurçon · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Sentinel of stone in the heart of the Périgord, the église Saint-Méard reveals a sixteenth-century doorway of rare refinement, where sculpted twisted mouldings and stone lacework frame a tympanum peopled with angels bearing Gothic phylacteries.
Loubejac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the Périgord noir, this Romanesque church from the 13th century reveals a cul-de-four chancel and a clocher-porche with finely sculpted pointed arches, guardian of a gallery with a fireplace that is unique of its kind.
Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Divine fortress in the heart of the Périgord: this Romanesque church from the 12th century, transformed into a defensive bastide in the 14th century, bears a fortified bell tower and a nave with battlements unique in the Dordogne.
Saint-Aquilin · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Erected in the 15th century in the heart of the Périgord, the église Saint-Eutrope de Saint-Aquilin captivates with its elegant lierne ribbed vaults and its three lateral chapels, a discreet Gothic gem listed as a Monument Historique.
In the heart of the bastide village of Domme, Le Touron displays the discreet elegance of 18th-century Périgord: a central main building flanked by two symmetrical wings, a reflection of bourgeois prosperity rooted in the golden Sarladais stone.
Discreet jewel of the Périgord Noir, the château de la Rue has kept watch over the hillsides of Lalinde since the Middle Ages. Its round towers and machicolations bear witness to a defensive architecture characteristic of the medieval Dordogne.
Formerly a Templar commandery nestled in the Périgord noir, the manoir de Cramirat reveals a medieval pointed arch, a vaulted cellar, and a corbelled tower of striking authenticity.
Sigoulès · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the Bergeracois, the église Saint-Michel de Lestignac reveals a Flamboyant Gothic doorway of rare delicacy, with its toric archivolts and its ogee arch with sculpted crockets, a sober and touching testament to medieval Périgord.
Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Birthplace of Montaigne and living sanctuary of humanist thought, the tour de la Librairie preserves intact the study where the Essais were born, with its 56 maxims carved into the oak.
Perched on the heights of Sarlat, Notre-Dame de Temniac has displayed its Romanesque silhouette since the 12th century. A former fortified priory, it offers a striking view over the Périgord Noir and preserves a Marian chapel that has been venerated since the Middle Ages.
Meyrals · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the heart of the Périgord Noir, the prehistoric Grotte du Bison at Meyrals harbours Palaeolithic remains of rare intensity, bearing witness to a human presence tens of thousands of years old in the Dordogne valley.
Tamniès · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Watching over the Périgordian village of Tamniès since the 12th century, the église Saint-Cybard displays a unique fortress bell tower, a former sentinel from troubled times, crowned with Romanesque arcatures of a sober elegance.
Tourtoirac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Founded in 1023 on the remains of a Roman villa, the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Pierre de Tourtoirac reveals Romanesque domes, historiated capitals, and an abbatial residence from the Grand Siècle in the heart of the Périgord vert.
Fortified Romanesque jewel of the Périgord noir, the église Saint-Martin de Tayac raises its machicolated turrets at the heart of les Eyzies, a fascinating alliance of mediaeval spirituality and defensive architecture.
Fierce remnant of the royal bastide of Monpazier, this fortified gate from the 13th century still raises its golden ashlar stones between medieval streets and the Périgord sky — a sandstone sentinel that has weathered eight centuries of history.
Coulaures · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Born from a sailor's vow in the 13th century, this humble Périgordian chapel, which survived the floods of the 15th century, preserves a façade with open arcades unique in the Dordogne, a true window between the sacred and the village square.
Nestled in the heart of Sarlat, this medieval chapel with Romanesque origins houses centuries of monastic history. Remodelled during the Renaissance, it forms one of the unassuming jewels of the cour des Chanoines.
Cherval · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestling in the bocage of the Périgord, the Clauzuroux estate boasts the discreet elegance of a country chateau shaped over the centuries, with its dry moat, Carthusian monastery and wooded parkland typical of the Périgord Vert region.
Salignac-Eyvignes · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the Périgord Noir, the église Saint-Loup d'Eybènes displays its sober twelfth-century Romanesque style, crowned by a rare pyramidal bell tower, and is enriched by a Renaissance chapel with slender small columns.
Savignac-Lédrier · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A medieval castle and forge in Périgord, where five centuries of metallurgy can be read in the stone: an 11 m blast furnace, a Renaissance door and the living traces of Jeanne d'Albret.
Saint-Méard-de-Drône · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord vert, the église Saint-Méard conceals a fascinating secret: beneath its 19th-century render, medieval 15th-century wall paintings lie dormant, silent witnesses to a vanished Romanesque interior.
Nestled in the Périgord Noir, this former 14th-century Benedictine priory, attached to the powerful abbaye de Sarlat, silently bears the scars of the Hundred Years' War and centuries of neglect.
Plazac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Fortified residence of the bishops of Périgueux nestled in the Périgord noir, this medieval château from the 12th and 13th centuries blends military architecture with canonical life, featuring its keep converted into a bell tower and its terraced cemetery.
Nestled in the heart of an old Périgordian cemetery, this twelfth-century Romanesque chapel captivates with its exceptional porch featuring three arches adorned with saw-tooth patterns, diamond points, and corbels bearing human faces.
Mayac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord Vert, the église Saint-Saturnin de Mayac reveals a Romanesque doorway from the 12th century of rare sobriety, rescued from the collapse of 1859 which nearly brought down this ancient edifice.
Marsalès · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the Périgord Noir, the église Saint-Loup de Marsalès reveals an intact Périgord Romanesque style: a cul-de-four apse and a baroque clocher-mur with curves and counter-curves, a discreet gem listed among the Monuments Historiques.
At the edges of the Périgord Blanc, the manoir de Grézignac reveals its elegant polygonal staircase tower from the 15th century, a silent witness to the royal loyalties forged during the time of the Hundred Years' War.
At the gateway to the Dordogne valley, the Champs-Blancs deposit reveals the secrets of prehistoric Périgord: an Upper Palaeolithic site listed as a Historic Monument since 1944, an exceptional testament to Magdalenian humanity.
Anchored in the heart of the medieval city of Sarlat, this 17th-century town hall combines administrative solemnity with the elegance of the Périgord noir, having been listed as a Monument Historique since 1947.
Lamonzie-Montastruc · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the Périgord, this Romanesque church from the 12th century conceals beneath its modern bell tower a doorway with five archivolts of rare elegance and a pendentive dome bearing witness to the golden age of medieval architecture.
Le Bourdeix · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled against the ruins of a medieval castle in Périgord Vert, this double-nave church conceals an ossuary crypt and a doorway with seven archivolts sculpted with a rare Romanesque elegance.
Biron · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord Noir, this twelfth-century Romanesque church surprises visitors with its porch featuring three archivolts and its wall belfry perched atop a corbelled turret, a discreet gem listed as a Monument Historique.
At the heart of Sarlat-la-Canéda, the former hôtel de ville embodies the majesty of Périgord architecture: blonde limestone, sculpted façades, and the living memory of a medieval consular city that has remained almost entirely intact.
Vestige majeur of ancient Vesunna, the amphitheatre of Périgueux is one of the largest in Roman Gaul, capable of accommodating more than 20,000 spectators at the heart of a prosperous city of the 2nd century.
Saint-Vincent-de-Cosse · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the Périgord Noir, this manor house from Sarlat elegantly combines a round tower from the 15th century with refined Renaissance sculptures, a rare testament to the Gothic-Renaissance transition in the Dordogne.
A jewel of the Périgord Renaissance, the hôtel de Maleville stands with its three façades on the place de la Liberté in Sarlat, combining mullioned windows, ornate dormers and sculpted medallions of rare elegance.
Nadaillac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord Noir, the église Saint-Denis de Nadaillac reveals a striking Gothic evolution: a faceted chancel almost as slender as its bell tower, and two chapels with ribbed vaulting of rare elegance.
Saint-Pompont · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the edges of the Périgord Noir, the enclosure and monument of the Grilloux silently guard the secrets of a fortified land, a rare vestige of medieval defensive architecture listed among the Monuments Historiques.
A Romanesque and Gothic jewel of Sarlat, the former cathedral of Saint-Sacerdos raises its thousand-year-old bell tower at the heart of the Périgord Noir. Five centuries of construction lend it a unique silhouette, blending Romanesque restraint with Gothic soaring.
In the heart of Montignac, the birthplace of Lascaux, this old house, listed since 1931, embodies Périgord civil architecture in all its elegant sobriety, with its blonde stones and its volumes characteristic of the vernacular buildings of the Périgord Noir.
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord Noir, the église Saint-Urbain de Vézac spans eight centuries of history between its Romanesque choir from the 12th century and its Gothic chapels, crowned by a lauze roof of rare authenticity.
Ligueux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the heart of the Périgord vert, the abbaye de Ligueux reveals a Romanesque chapel with four domes and an exceptionally rare wooden doorway, the legacy of a Benedictine monastery founded under Carolingian influence.
At the heart of the Vieux Sarlat, this half-timbered house from the 15th century embodies Périgord medieval architecture in all its splendour: sculpted wooden frames and bold corbelling set against ochre stone.
La Gonterie-Boulouneix · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the heart of the Périgord vert, the Romanesque church of Boulouneix reveals a porch with five arcades adorned with small columns bearing capitals sculpted with remarkable delicacy, a twelfth-century gem listed among the Monuments Historiques.
Metamorphosed from a medieval fortress into an elegant Renaissance château, Fages raises its two square pavilions and its battlemented wall walk at the heart of the Périgord Noir, a silent guardian of the Wars of Religion.
Saint-Pardoux-et-Vielvic · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord Noir, this unassuming eleventh-century Romanesque church captivates with the purity of its rounded barrel-vaulted nave and its arcaded bell tower perched atop an age-old gable.
At the crossroads of the Périgordian paths, this 16th-century cross features a sculpted iconography of rare refinement: Christ on the cross, Virgin and Child, and late Gothic ogee arches, listed as a Monument Historique as early as 1921.
Spanning the Isle since the Middle Ages, the Pont de la Tour unfurls its three round-arched spans between Dordogne and Haute-Vienne, a stone guardian of a forgotten road and a tower lost for ever.
Coutures · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord, the église Saint-Saturnin de Coutures reveals a sober Romanesque elegance typical of the Sarladais, with its wall belfry pierced with arcatures and its golden limestone masonry.
The architectural jewel of the bastide town of Domme, the Hôtel du Gouverneur combines medieval vaults, a Renaissance staircase and a corbelled watchtower - three centuries of power inscribed in the golden Périgord stone.
Saint-Antoine-Cumond · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A Romanesque jewel of the Périgord, the église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens de Saint-Antoine-Cumond captivates with its portal of nine archivolt rings and its Poitevin cupola, a masterpiece from the late 12th century listed as a Monument Historique as early as 1914.
Port-Sainte-Foy-et-Ponchapt · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Situated on the borders of the Dordogne, the château de Fauga conceals beneath its eighteenth-century stones a turbulent Huguenot past: escape tunnels, clandestine gatherings, and a tower with a stone dome that is unique of its kind.
Chenaud · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord, this Romanesque domed church in the Charentais style reveals a square bell tower of rare elegance, perched upon its vault like a millenary stone lighthouse.
Jewel of Romanesque architecture in the Périgord Noir, Saint-Caprais de Carsac features a dome on pendentives, a chancel with paired columns, and a doorway with five archivolts of rare sculptural elegance.
Perched on the Périgord lands of Saint-Astier, the château de Puyferrat displays the restrained elegance of the sixteenth-century French Renaissance, where round towers and mullioned windows combine seigneurial might with architectural refinement.
Nestled in the heart of Sarlat, this seventeenth-century convent displays a silent cloister and an arcaded gallery of rare elegance, bearing witness to five centuries of contemplative life in the Périgord Noir.
At the heart of the Périgord Vert, the église Saint-Étienne de Mareuil displays its authentic twelfth-century Romanesque style: an imposing porch tower, a distinctive flat chevet, and a stone simplicity that defies the centuries.
At the heart of the Périgord, five early Christian mosaics from the 4th century emerge from a thousand-year-old Gallo-Roman villa: a treasure of tesserae where intricate geometry and flower-filled baskets defy the passage of time.
Saint-Jean-de-Côle · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
In the heart of France's most beautiful village in the Périgord Vert region, this medieval priory boasts a late-Gothic cloister of rare elegance, crowned by a library with a 17th-century painted ceiling.
Lussas-et-Nontronneau · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Buried beneath the verdant hills of the Périgord Vert, this Gallo-Roman villa of Lussas-et-Nontronneau reveals the secrets of a Roman provincial aristocracy, with its preserved baths and mosaics.
Saint-Amand-de-Coly · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A medieval fortress-abbey lost in the heart of the Périgord Noir, Saint-Amand-de-Coly combines Augustinian spirituality with a striking defensive architecture, a fascinating remnant of the "fort Saint-Amand".
Rudeau-Ladosse · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
In the heart of the Périgord Vert region, Bellussière hides a rare treasure: an 11th-century spearhead keep, a form that has all but disappeared from the French medieval landscape, flanked by a corbelled turret and a seigniorial chapel.
At the heart of Périgueux, this Renaissance hôtel conceals an architectural treasure unique in France: a four-newel staircase with sculpted decoration of exceptional virtuosity, a miraculous survivor of a great seigneurial residence of the 16th century.
Formerly the cathedral of Périgueux with its Byzantine Romanesque domes, Saint-Étienne-de-la-Cité bears the scars of the Wars of Religion and two millennia of Christian history in Périgord.
At the heart of Montignac, this 16th-century gallery house embodies the Périgordian art of living during the Renaissance, with its elegant arcaded loggia opening onto the medieval street.
La Dornac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At La Dornac, the Notre-Dame church reveals a rare dialogue between Périgord Romanesque and late Gothic styles: a triple-arched porch, a flat tower-porch, and a Romanesque chancel with sculpted capitals of striking refinement.
A stone sentinel between the Dordogne and the forests of Périgord Noir, Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Pompont blends Romanesque sobriety with the scars of the Wars of Religion, right down to its 14th-century fortified turret.
Architectural whim of a theatrical genius: the château de Mounet-Sully blends Carolingian towers, a Gothic cloister and a private performance hall, where Rodin sculpted and Rostand dreamt of his Cyrano.
Carved directly into the limestone cliff of the Périgord Noir, the monolithic chapel of Caudon houses one of the oldest rock-cut cemeteries in the Dordogne, with its body-shaped graves hewn straight into the rock.
Vendoire · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
The 12th-century Romanesque jewel of the Charente region, the church of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Vendoire boasts a porch with sculpted arcatures and a polygonal choir of an elegance that is rare in the Périgord.
In the wooded hills of the Périgord Noir, the Pech de l'Azé reveals Neanderthal caves of exceptional richness: bones, hearths and Acheulean tools more than 100,000 years old.
Saint-Estèphe · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the heart of the Périgord Vert, the remains of the prieuré de Badeix reveal a Romanesque chapter house of rare elegance, with its groined vaults resting on columns with sculpted capitals dating from the 12th century.
Dussac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the Périgord bocage, the château de Dussac spreads its mediaeval towers and Renaissance façades at the heart of a secluded valley in the north of the Dordogne, listed as a Monument Historique since 1927.
Javerlhac-et-la-Chapelle-Saint-Robert · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A major remnant of the metallurgical industry of the Ancien Régime, the Forge Neuve de Javerlhac cast the cannons of the French royal Navy in the 18th century, setting its blast furnaces roaring over the waters of the Bandiat.
At the heart of Domme, a hilltop bastide town in the Périgord Noir, the former Augustinian abbey reveals a 15th-century Gothic chapel with finely sculpted corbels, a survivor of the Wars of Religion.
Standing on a rocky spur above the River Dronne, Bourdeilles combines a 14th-century medieval octagonal keep with an elegant, unfinished Renaissance pavilion, fascinating witnesses to eight centuries of Périgord history.
Allemans · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
The Romanesque jewel of the Périgord region, Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens church in Allemans boasts rare domes on pendentives, a heritage of singularly elegant Aquitanian Romanesque art, enhanced by a surprising neo-Byzantine bell tower-porch.
Bouniagues · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A former medieval manor house converted into a presbytery in Bouniagues, where corbelled towers and a coat of arms with fantastic bears tell the fascinating story of the Saint-Ours family.
Neuvic · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Between late Gothic and the first flourishes of the Renaissance, this sixteenth-century Périgourdine château proudly dominates the Dronne, crowned with its corbelled turrets and its machicolated wall walk.
Pearl of the Romanesque Périgord, the église Saint-Pardoux de Mareuil reveals a thousand-year-old apse crowned with stone tiles and a lantern bell tower with a dome of rare Gothic elegance.
Spanning the Vézère since the Middle Ages, the Ancien Pont de Terrasson-Lavilledieu is one of the finest examples of a medieval bridge in the Périgord Noir, listed as a Monument Historique as early as 1904.
A stone sentinel standing on the edge of Périgueux, the Mataguerre Tower is one of the last remnants of the medieval ramparts that surrounded the city. Its imposing limestone cylinder, over twenty metres high, embodies the defensive power of 13th-century Périgueux.
Château de Matecoulon unfolds its U-shaped layout flanked by four round towers within a setting of terraces and gardens adorned with enigmatic follies — a unique Renaissance and Classical treasure in the Dordogne.
Le Fleix · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Remnant of a castle where the peace of 1580 was signed, this Protestant temple of le Fleix holds within its walls a Renaissance turret and a decisive chapter of the French Wars of Religion.
Jewel of Romanesque architecture in the Périgord vert, the church of Javerlhac reveals two naves from distinct periods, a mediaeval cupola and a Romanesque bell tower housing a moving enfeu with recumbent effigies.
Nestling in the medieval heart of Sarlat, this discreet 17th-century chapel boasts an elegant Louis XIII bell tower and an interior Baroque altarpiece with gilded figures of rare finesse.
Buried in the wooded cliffs of the Périgord, the Brouillaud and Sondougne shelters reveal the silent traces of two humanities: Neanderthals and Homo sapiens have successively carved their passage here for over 70,000 years.
Nestled beneath the Grand Lac, this decorated cave of Meyrals contains parietal remains from the Upper Palaeolithic, silent witnesses to a creative humanity more than 15,000 years old at the heart of the Périgord noir.
Antonne-et-Trigonant · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A Renaissance jewel of the Périgord, the château des Bories reveals a monumental staircase that foreshadowed the grand siècle, towers with machicolations, and a guards' hall with Gothic vaulting of rare sophistication.
Saint-Pierre-de-Frugie · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Perched in the Périgord vert, the château de Vieillecour raises its four round towers over a land steeped in memory: that of saint Waast, catechist of Clovis. A forgotten Renaissance jewel, encircled by machicolations.
A rural lane classified as a Historic Monument since 1931, winding through the heart of the vallée de la Vézère in Périgord Noir — an ancestral thoroughfare whose route reveals the secrets of a land shaped by centuries of human history.
Château-l'Evêque · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A Romanesque gem of the Périgord, the église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Preyssac-d'Agonac eloquently illustrates the transition between the barrel vault and the rows of domes, with a saintongeaise façade of rare elegance.
Perched on the cliffs of the Vézère, Marzac unfolds its five medieval towers and its galleries with painted ogival arches, a discreet jewel of the Périgord noir between the Hundred Years' War and the Renaissance.
Perched on its Périgord hill, the manoir de Pech Godou unfolds eight centuries of history between its medieval keep, machicolations and Renaissance windows — a discreet gem of the vallée de la Nauze.
Saint-Germain-du-Salembre · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Built on the remains of a Gallo-Roman villa, this Périgord castle with its truncated medieval keep tells the story of a thousand years of history, from the Hundred Years' Wars to the 18th-century rebuilds.
Jewel of the Périgord Noir, this chapel dating from 1329 contains an exceptional cycle of medieval wall paintings: a star-vaulted ceiling, saints, the Passion of Christ and martyrs of a striking freshness.
Nestled in the valley of the Vézère, the abri Reverdit de Sergeac is a Palaeolithic sanctuary where a sculpted frieze and Magdalenian engravings bear witness to a creative humanity some 15,000 years old.
Beauregard-et-Bassac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Classed as a Historic Monument, this Neolithic vestige, the dolmen of Beauregard-et-Bassac, has stood its sandstone slabs in the Périgord for more than 5,000 years, a silent witness to the first stone builders of the Dordogne.
Buried beneath the hills of the Périgord Vert, the Cluzeau cave is home to wall paintings from the Upper Palaeolithic: mammoths, bison and felines painted over 15,000 years ago in absolute stone silence.
On the outskirts of Bergerac, Lespinassat displays its baroque façade between dry moats and Périgord vineyards. Its monumental horseshoe staircase with a wrought-iron banister remains one of the most elegant compositions in the Bergeracois.
Douzillac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Sentinel of medieval Périgord, the château de Mauriac raises its two round machicolated towers on twelfth-century foundations. A striking remnant of fifteenth-century military architecture, listed among the Monuments Historiques.
Saint-Laurent-des-Bâtons · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A stone sentinel standing at the edge of the Bergeracois, the château de Saint-Maurice displays its machicolations and its indented wall-walk, a striking testament to the defensive architectures of the Périgord in the 15th century.
Badefols-d'Ans · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Jewel of Romanesque architecture in the Périgord Noir, the église Saint-Vincent-et-Saint-Cloud de Badefols-d'Ans blends medieval sobriety with Renaissance grace, with its domed bell tower and its lierne vaults of rare elegance.
Former palace of the bishops of Sarlat, this Gothic and Renaissance building has passed through the centuries to become a town hall, theatre, market… then a showcase for Périgord tourism.
Cantillac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord vert, this 12th-century Romanesque church captivates with its dome on pendentives and its cul-de-four chancel, intact witnesses to a rural Romanesque art of rare authenticity.
Excideuil · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Fortress from the medieval era with two square keeps rising on a rocky spur, the château d'Excideuil combines the military roughness of the Middle Ages with the elegance of a Renaissance residential wing, guarded by a 15th-century gatehouse with a drawbridge.
At the heart of the Périgord Noir, the Falaise du Conte reveals around twenty Palaeolithic caves carved into the limestone rock, keeping humanity's secrets for tens of millennia.
At the heart of medieval Bergerac, the Vieille Auberge reveals its pointed arches with small columns and its trilobed twin windows — a civil Gothic gem from the 15th century of rare elegance.
Jayac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
In the heart of the Périgord Noir region, Saint-Julien church in Jayac boasts a 12th-century Romanesque choir of rare purity, with sculpted capitals and semi-circular apsidioles - jewels of Saintonge Romanesque art.
Saint-André-d'Allas · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
In the heart of the Périgord Noir region, Le Breuil is home to a unique collection of dry-stone huts with corbelled roofs, a fragile jewel of vernacular architecture dating back thousands of years and listed as a Historic Monument.
Vieux-Mareuil · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Jewel of Romanesque Périgord, Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens de Vieux-Mareuil displays three pendentive domes and a portal carved with archivolts, the whole fortified with machicolated bartizans bearing witness to a faith under strain.
In the heart of Bergerac, this 15th-century medieval island is a blend of ashlar and carved timber-framed walls. Its corbelled turret evokes the Gothic civil architecture of Périgord at its height.
Fanlac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Perched on its Périgord heights, the château d'Auberoche blends the medieval robustness of its round towers with the classical elegance of a 17th-century main building, crowned with sculpted pediments and terraced gardens.
A stone sentinel overlooking Sarlat, Temniac castle has seen its history span twelve centuries of bishops, wars and ruins. Its quadrilateral enclosure and towers bear witness to an exceptional destiny.
Paulin · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the heart of the Périgord, the église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens de Paulin reveals a dome on pendentives inherited from Saintonge Romanesque art and a polygonal apse of rare Gothic elegance.
Payzac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Jewel of industrial heritage in the Dordogne, the former papeterie de Vaux retains its nineteenth-century production line intact, with its bucket hydraulic wheels and its round mould machine — an exceptionally rare testament to Limousin rye paper.
La Tour-Blanche · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Deep in the heart of the Périgord, the decorated cave of Jovelle contains engraved mammoths over 20,000 years old, a striking testament to humanity's earliest artists, listed as a Monument Historique.
Le Change · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Perched on a rocky spur in the Périgord, this twelfth-century Romanesque chapel houses fragments of medieval frescoes and a circular apsidal plan of a rare defensive austerity.
In the heart of Sarlat, this 15th-century Gothic house rises up from its large gable on the street, with its three-lobed windows and finely worked columns, a rare example of medieval Périgord civil architecture.
Campagne · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
In the cliffs of Campagne, the Roc de Marsal offers a deeply moving testimony: the 70,000-year-old burial site of a Neanderthal child, an absolute jewel of prehistory in the Périgord region.
Valeuil · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Perched sheer on its rock between Brantôme and Bourdeilles, the château de Ramefort reveals a medieval keep crowned with a rare trilobed window and an entrance gatehouse that have withstood the centuries.
Nestled in the Périgord Noir, this austere twelfth-century Romanesque church captivates with the purity of its narrow nave and the elegance of its barrel-vaulted apse, an unspoilt testament to the Saintongeais Romanesque style.
Thiviers · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Jewel of Romanesque architecture in the Périgord, the église Notre-Dame de Thiviers reveals sculpted capitals from the 12th century and a Gothic vault with liernes and tiercerons of rare elegance, bearing witness to eight centuries of faith and architecture.
Sentinel of stone at the heart of the Périgord, Laffinoux unfolds four centuries of architecture between medieval towers and an elegant Régence pavilion with curved walls — a seigneurial ensemble of rare coherence.
Nestled in the Périgord Vert, this small 12th-century Romanesque church displays an intact chancel with blind arcades sculpted with rare refinement, retaining the traces of a mysterious medieval polychromy.
Nestled on the banks of the Dronne, this 17th–18th century residence watches over the medieval bridge of Brantôme, a rare alliance between the golden stone of the Périgord and the aquatic reflections of a town ranked among the most beautiful in France.
Perched in the heart of the Périgord, the église Saint-Julien de Tursac combines the charm of domed Romanesque architecture with the ruggedness of a medieval fortress, a unique testament to a survival architecture of the 14th century.
