

Morning/early afternoon: Arrive at Brive Dordogne Valley Airport, grab your bags and head over to the beautiful Château de Lissac for a French “Casse croûte” (i.e. The Prigord Noir contains the so-called Golden Triangle, which is roughly demarcated by the fascinating top tourist attractions like the troglodyte sites. I’m sure you can get around without one but it makes so much more sense to get yourself a car (or indeed a driver) to take you around. Oh, and you should definitely get a car to drive around. I’d recommend arriving at Brive like we did and flying out of Bergerac but if you wanted to, you could flip it around and reverse the itinerary. Halfway between the Gulf of Morbihan and Merlin’s Forêt de Brocéliande, this medieval village was once a roche fort. Right, I’ll get right to it, if you’re thinking of visiting the Dordogne valley soon, I’ve put together the perfect itinerary for you to see, eat and drink all that there is in the beautiful Dordogne Valley of France.įly into Brive Airport of Bergerac. Photograph: Reinhold Tscherwitschke/Alamy. Sarlat-la-Canda Chteau de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle in the fog, Dordogne. The route to visit the village is very well signposted, with. It is located on top of a rocky promontory, ideal for defending against possible attacks. Although Sarlat is undoubtedly the jewel in the crown for the Dordogne, both Bergerac and Perigueux also have extensive medieval centres and visits. It is an ancient medieval city, which they have managed to preserve to this day. The department can perhaps best be considered as having three principal towns - Bergerac in the south-west, Sarlat in the south-east, and Perigueux further north. It’s how people live and thrive and nothing is done to impress you or show off to you – which in the end actually impresses you even more than if they’d been trying to. Places to visit in Dordogne Place du March aux Oies, Sarlat-la-Canda. Belvés is one of France’s most beautiful villages and one of the most beautiful in the Dordogne Perigord. Everything was so very French (which left me wanting to learn as much French as possible) and the best part about that is that the experiences are about as authentic as they get here.

I think one of my favourite things about the places we visited as well was how un-geared up they were for travellers.
