The Lascaux Caves are world-famous and rightly so. Bergerac is a particularly good place to enjoy the Bastille day celebrations on the 14th July when it has a huge firework display over the river.īrantome in the north of the Dordogne really is a picture-postcard town with a huge abbey, lots of beautiful buildings and the town is built on a loop in the river and so enjoys lots of riverside views.ĭuring the summer you can do evening visits of the troglodyte parts of the abbey with a guide. With lots of cafes and restaurants it makes an excellent base for visiting the area. Sarlat is a nice lively town even in winter.īergerac is one of the Dordogne's larger towns and has a lovely medieval centre and an attractive river location. This beautiful town has loads of fabulous buildings, narrow medieval streets and beautiful squares.
Sarlat has got to be in everybody's list of favourite places in the Dordogne. Some of our favourite places to visit in the Dordogne include: The most visited region of the Dordogne can be seen on the map above between Le Buisson (25km east of Bergerac) and the region across to Sarlat. While a large number of the main attractions on the map can be seen during one holiday, a significant amount of driving might be involved! See our Dordogne Regions Guide for suggestions about which region of the Dordogne you might like to focus on and our Dordogne Holiday Planner for advice on where to stay. You can visit any place marked on the map - just click on the little sign. Or, if you had been on our recent France Today Travels Périgord Discovery Tour, you would have been one of very few lucky people permitted to see the original polychromic cave art in the spectacular Font-de-Gaume.This Dordogne map shows some of the places, castles and other highlights of the Dordogne and is best used in conjunction with the guides to the four regions of Perigord, or with the towns, chateaux and caves of the region. The jewel in the crown is at Montignac, where the world-famous Lascaux cave paintings were discovered and where today you can visit the excellent new Lascaux 4 centre. Soaring over the Vézère valley with its dramatic cliffs and ancient cave dwellings aboard my own chopper, I am reminded why it is called the “valley of prehistory” – there are no fewer than 14 UNESCO World Heritage Sites to visit. A trip with Héliclub du Périgord or Montgolfiers du Périgord is a memorable way to reveal the grandeur of the landscape and to peek at some of the lovingly maintained private manoirs and châteaux hidden away in the forests. Photo credit: Chanet/ CRTAįor a bird’s-eye view of the “valley of a thousand châteaux” you need to take to the air, by balloon or helicopter.
Lascaux IV, or the Centre International de l’Art Pariétal. Hood down for maximum fresh air (no air con here), you get used to the roaring of the little engine, the surprisingly comfy ride and the yacht-like heeling over on bends, and soon enough there’s a big smile on your face as the signposts guide you towards what is one of France’s most visited historical sites, Rocamadour. Starting upstream near the city of Brive-la-Gaillarde (handy to fly into from Paris or London), I have a few miles of rolling roads through the upland plateaux of the Causses, with their distinctive stone walls and stone shepherd huts, to get used to the sensation of driving the iconic 2CV. 24), that is only one part of the story of a river whose source is high up in the volcanic hills of the Auvergne and which weaves its way along the limestone canyons of Corrèze and the Lot, before meandering through the Dordogne Valley, where it enters the famous wine-growing estuary near Bordeaux. Photo credit: FotoliaĪlthough there is a département called Dordogne, (No.
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