Perigord - South West
Situated 40 km from Auch, in Gascon country, Sarrant enfolds its tall stone, daub and half-timbered houses around the Church of Saint Vincent which was rebuilt and enlarged after the Wars of Religion. Entrance into the village is via a 14C arched gateway pierced through a solid square tower that is evidence of its medieval past.
Themes
- Castles and ramparts : The square tower and its arched gateway, remains of the ramparts
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Ségur-le-Château is situated on a peninsula formed by a loop in the River Auvézère and is, as its name says, a "secure place" in which the Viscounts of Limoges chose to set up their fortified castle. Although only a keep of that 12C building remains today, many noble houses with turrets or half-timbering bear witness to the opulent period the village lived through from the 15C to the 18C when it was the seat of an Appeals Court extending jurisdiction over 361 seigniories in the region.
Themes
- By the waterside : The river Auvézère
- Castles and ramparts : Remains of the 12C castle
- Unusual sights : Fête des Culs Noirs (Black-bottomed pig festival in August)
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Turenne bears the name of a powerful viscountcy that ruled over Limousin, Périgord and Quercy for ten centuries and it has kept many traces of its past : César and le Trésor towers, remains of the castle overlooking the village, old town houses dating from the 15C to 17C adorned with turrets or bartizans and more modest dwellings tiled with "lauze" stone slabs or slate.
Themes
- Castles and ramparts : Remains of the castle of the Viscounts of Turenne
- Panoramas : View of the village and rolling countryside from the esplanade in front of the castle
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