Dordogne Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Dordogne? Check out our Dordogne Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Dordogne.
Top Places to visit in Dordogne:
Cave of Font-de-Gaume, Vieux Sarlat, The Maison Forte de Reignac, Chateau des Milandes, Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum, Chateau de Beynac, Saint jean de cole, Chateau de Commarque, Place des Cornieres, Monpazier, Les Jardins de Marqueyssac, Les Jardins du Manoir d’Eyrignac, Le Chateau de Fenelon, Grotte de Rouffignac, Chateau de Castelnaud, Cathedrale St-Fron
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St Jean de Cole - Trail running holiday
A trail running tour around the Perigord passing through the village of St Jean de Cole, chateaux, moulins, lavoirs, rivers, woodland trails and old railway trails.
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Villefranche & to Monaco
Today's adventure winds along the eastern shores of the Cote d'Azur where you will discover several small seaside towns and a tiny country with the world's richest inhabitants. The train can take you along most of today's route, but you will find it easier and more interesting to take the bus out and return back by train. Distances are short -- you could travel all the way from one end to the other, Nice to Menton, in 35 minutes by train, so the brief bus rides linking each place are easy to handle and will give you better access to some of the sights.
Begin at the main bus station of Nice, the Gare Routier, located a few blocks east of Place Massena along Boulevard Jean Jaures. Buses leave every 15 minutes, but you might take note of the bus schedules while here, or check on-line at rca.tm.fr. Plan on the 9:10am departure to get a good start on this action-packed day, which will deliver you in just 15 minutes to your first stop, Villefranche, providing a scenic ride along the way with views of the old port of Nice and passing coastal villas.
VILLEFRANCHE
The bus lets you off in the new part of Villefranche, which you don't need to see, so walk downhill towards the Café de la Paix (ask a local if in doubt), then take the steps leading down into the Old Town along Rue l'Eglise. The steps will lead you into a small pedestrian maze of alleys, with shops, galleries and cafes scattered everywhere. For general bearings just keep heading downhill, which leads you towards the waterfront in a few minutes. Along the way notice the arcaded street, Rue Obscure, a historic landmark one block inland from the marina, which is a picturesque boat harbor along the water's edge, lined with a row of outdoor restaurants.
This entire stroll can be done in 45 minutes if you just keep walking, or you could take 2 hours for a more thorough exploration of the side lanes and plazas. Villefranche is a popular cruise port as well, and it's only about 15 minutes away from Monaco, either by bus or by train, but there are a few other villages along the way worth visiting.
You now face the choice of either exploring the adjacent Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat peninsula, with its nature walk and impressive mansions, or moving further along the coast.
Springtime In Nice, France On The Côte d’Azur
Exploring the beautiful city of Nice, France on the chic Côte d’Azur also known as the French Riviera. Nice sits on the Mediterranean Sea in the South of France is not far from Monaco and the Italian border.
Papal palace, Avignon, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe
The Papal palace is a historical palace located in Avignon, southern France. It is one of the largest and most important medieval Gothic buildings in Europe. Once a fortress and palace, the papal residence was the seat of Western Christianity during the 14th century. Six papal conclaves were held in the Palais, leading to the elections of Benedict XII in 1334, Clement VI in 1342, Innocent VI in 1352, Urban V in 1362, Gregory XI in 1370 and Antipope Benedict XIII in 1394. The Palais is actually two joined buildings: the old palais of Benedict XII, which sits on the impregnable rock of Doms, and the new palais of Clement VI, the most extravagant of the Avignon popes. Together they form the largest Gothic building of the Middle Ages, it is also one of the best examples of the International Gothic architectural style. The construction design was the work of two of France’s best architects, Pierre Peysson and Jean du Louvres and the lavish ornamentation was the work of two of the best students of the School of Siena (Italy), Simone Martini and Matteo Giovanetti. In addition, the papal library housed in the Palais (the largest in Europe at the time with over 2,000 volumes), attracted a group of clerics passionate in the study of belle-lettres, amongst them the founder of Humanism, Petrarch. At the same time, composers, singers and musicians were drawn to the Great Chapel of the Palais. It was there that Clement VI appreciated the Mass of Notre-Dame of Guillaume de Machaut, there that Philippe de Vitry at the pope’s invitation presented his Ars Nova and there that Johannes Ciconia came to study. Due to its immense size, the Palais was also the place where the general organisation of the Church began to change. It facilitated the centralisation of services and the adaptation of operations in order to suit the needs of the papacy, creating a truly central administration for the Church. The manpower of the Curia (Church administration), while 200 at the end of the 13th century, surpassed 300 at the beginning of the 14th century and reached 500 people in 1316. To this were added over 1,000 lay officials working within the Palais. Despite this, the Palais became obsolete when the papacy found it necessary to return to Rome. The hope of reuniting Latin and Orthodox Christians, along with the achievement of peace in the Papal States in Italy, made the case of returning stronger. Added to that was the strong conviction of both Urban V and Gregory XI that the seat of the papacy could only be the tomb of St Peter. Despite strong opposition from the Court of France and the College of Cardinals, both popes found the means to return to Rome, the first, on 30 April 1362, the second on 13 September 1370. This time, the return was absolute. In the following centuries, the Palais lost all of its former glory, despite it serving as the seat of two anti-popes and many cardinals. It retained, however, a “work of destruction” aspect that French poets and writers such as Charles Forbes René de Montalembert have referred to over the centuries, with its powerful sense of beauty, simplicity, grandeur and immortality. Since 1995, the Palais des Papes has been classified, along with the historic center of Avignon, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, under cultural criteria i, ii and iv.
Paris Part I - De Ville Lumiere à Grand Paris
From Ville Lumiere to the future Grand Paris the French capital is still today a dynamic scene of transformation and change, where new buildings, neighbourhoods and urban plans come to life. Fn.tv shows the most outstanding new contemporary buildings in town.
Da Ville Lumiere alla futura Gran Paris, la capitale francese è oggi una scena dinamica di trasformazione e cambiamento, in cui nuovi edifici, quartieri e riqualificazioni urbane prendono vita. Fn.tv mostra le più affascianti architetture contemporanee in città.
Sexy paris seine eiffel champs louvre notre dame mona lisa
At the end of september 2007 my girlfriend and myself took a trip to Sexy Paris to see the Police on tour at the Stade de france and while there took in some of the numerous sights. In no particular order we saw, the louvre,royal bridge,eiffel tower(obviously),concorde square,notre-dame,city hall,clock tower,the conciergerie,the pompidou center,champ-elysees,la defense,hotel des invalides,moulin rouge,musee d'orsay,the odeon national theatre,the sorbonne,arc de triomphe and much much more, it was a very busy 3 days and with lots more to see we can't wait to go back...
Marseille, France - Qu'est-ce que ce sera? // JBAXTER TRAVEL
JBAXTER TRAVEL VLOG EPISODE #9
June 2016 - Marseille, France
We visited Marseille for my birthday and had the fortune of being able to stay in one of the coolest B&B's in the city. We also tried our luck kayaking AND hiking from Cassis to the hidden beach better known as Calanque d'En-Vau. Visit my website for more information on where we went, what we did and how we did it (link below).
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Places to see in ( Girona - Spain ) S'Agaro
Places to see in ( Girona - Spain ) S'Agaro
S'Agaro is an upmarket resort on the Costa Brava between Sant Feliu de Guíxols and Castell-Platja d'Aro in Catalonia, Spain. In the early 1920s Josep Ensesa Gubert, the son of a successful Girona industrialist, persuaded his father to buy the land between the bay at Sant Pol and the long beach at Sa Conca north of Sant Feliu de Guixols.
The area didn't even have a name, so the family chose to call it after the Agaro stream that ran through it. Inhabited by squirrels and lizards, supervised by gulls that would inspire the inn's name, the treeless scrub offered little but a gentle climate, splendid isolation and dazzling views.
Not to mention the intoxicating scent of pine trees mixed with aniseed plants that grew wild, even to this day. Josep Ensesa was (thankfully) determined that the mystic spirit of the place was not to be sacrificed to the demands of property development as the rest of the Costa Brava succumbed over the next eight decades to the present.
To assure that the development (a community of seaside villas and a small inn) would be in sympathy with the landscape, he turned to an architect, Rafael Masó i Valentí, an outspoken campaigner for traditional Catalan design. Mr. Masó drew on the local architectural vocabulary of porticos, towers, terraces and low roof lines to conjure a colony aimed at those with artistic tastes.
Purchasers of land bound themselves to carefully drawn contracts that guaranteed buildings of visual unity. After Masó's death in 1935 Francesc Folguera took over the project, going on to build the church situated on the highest point of the resort.
To date, the promontory contains about 60 exclusive houses with part of the camí de ronda following s'Agaró's coastline in its entirety. The world famous five star Hostal de la Gavina dominates the view from Sant Pol beach and was popular with movie stars such as Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Bogart and Bacall.
Add to that Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, Peter Sellers, John Wayne, Dirk Bogarde and Sean Connery along with Niclas Carlsson famous royalty from Sweden. without discounting that s'Agaró wasn't merely Hollywood-by-the-Sea - writers like Jean Cocteau rubbed shoulders with the soprano Teresa Berganza, the tenor José Carreras, Cole Porter and political figures like ex-prime minister Edward Heath of Britain, Raymond Barre of France, Clare Boothe Luce, King Juan Carlos, as well as the finance ministers of the European Community.
( Girona - Spain ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Girona . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Girona - Spain
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Video tour of a vacation rental on Impasse Saint-Denis in Paris (Les Halles - Le Marais)
Hello and welcome to another New York Habitat video tour of a vacation rental in Paris ( ). Today, we will be taking you on a tour of a nice one-bedroom vacation rental on Impasse Saint-Denis, which is located between Les Halles and Le Marais, in a lovely and vibrant neighborhood in Paris, France.
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For more information about this vacation rental (ref. PA-657), feel free to take a look at its comprehensive description on our website ( ).
As you enter the apartment, you will find yourself in the warmly decorated living room. It has two windows offering views of neighboring rooftops. It is furnished with a sofa, a coffee table, an armoire, a small table, and lamps. You will certainly appreciate the artwork and the unique furniture.
Off the living room, you will find the entrance of the bedroom, which is separated by a curtain. It is furnished with a double-sized bed, a small desk, an armoire, a large mirror, and a small TV.
The kitchen has a small window and is equipped with a refrigerator, a microwave, and two stove tops.
The blue-and-green-tiled bathroom is found off the kitchen. It comes with a bathtub with a shower, shelves, and a sink.
Wireless Internet is accessible throughout the apartment and dishware and towels are provided.
This vacation rental apartment is located very close to the famous Rue Montorgueil, where you will find plenty of shopping, boutiques, bars, cafes, and restaurants, and metro stations and other public transportation are conveniently located nearby.
The Musée des Arts et Métiers, which is found in an old abbey, offers a collection of ancient scientific instruments and notable inventions from the past.
A few blocks away, you will find the unmistakable Pompidou Center. With its modern and atypical architecture, it is home of the largest museum of modern art in Europe.
The neighborhood around the Pompidou Center is known as Beaubourg. It is a lively neighborhood with great shopping, French cafes, and pedestrian streets.
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Thank you for watching this video tour of a vacation rental in Paris. We hope to see you soon living like a true Parisian in the City of Light!