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Sarlat

Markets, old sandstone, intact and beautifully-restored medieval and Renaissance buildings, restaurants and bars: Sarlat’s one of the whole country’s most attractive, and therefore most popular, towns.
Arguably best experienced in autumn or spring – or early on a summer’s morning – Sarlat’s beauty, bustle, ambience and location see it breeze through the audition for Quintessentially French Market Town. If you’re not planning to eat out here – and you should, at least once – then try the Wednesday and Saturday markets and roam the stalls which heave with local produce.

Les Jardins des Marqueyssac

Enormous gardens, amazing views. In summer, once the day’s heat has slightly subsided, go to experience their candle-lit soirees (plenty here to keep children occupied too).

La Roque Gageac

Another of the area’s many contenders for France’s Most Beautiful Village. This one catches the eye by combining a location beneath an enormous rockface, stone houses and exotic planting throughout the village. And if anything, it looks even better from the water: you can hire a canoe, or let someone else take the strain and mosey up-river on a Gabarre, based on an old river trading boat.

Gouffre de Padirac

This is an amazing, crystalline cave complex full of stalactite and stalagmite formations. To enter the caves (and the gondola which conveys you around them) you’ll first descend 75 metres. From there, it’s all done by boat: an eerie, dreamlike passage through underground caverns full of extraordinary rock formations, including Lac de la Pluie (the lake of rain), the Grand Dome and Lac Superieur. It’s just what a cave experience should be: other-worldly, slightly weird, oddly beautiful.

Roque St Christophe

Set into this enormous, 250-foot cliff over River Vezere are the remains of a Troglodyte cave complex which run for roughly half a mile. You can still see the five terraces in the cliff face - over 300-foot up - which use naturally hollowed out caves in the limestone cliff. The complex was used 50,000 years ago by Neanderthals, and 25,000 years ago by the Cro-Magnons. Even as (relatively) recently as 1588, the location became a key stronghold which was eventually destroyed in the Wars of Religion.

Ophorus - guided wine tours

The campsite owners are good friends of the people who run these guided tours in Saint Emilion, Medoc and Bordeaux (as well as excursions in and around Sarlat).The tours they offer are small, intimate and great value for money.

Rocamadour

Strictly speaking, this beautiful village isn’t in the Dordogne, it’s just across its eastern border into Lot. Despite the fact that its population is only around 600, every year it welcomes roughly a million visitors. One reason for this is that, as with a few other villages in the area, it’s an amazing-looking place, sprouting from and clinging to an enormous cliff face. And it’s also, in the last thousand years, become an important pilgrimage destination, in demand for its healing powers as well as its location on the long southbound route to Santiago de Campostela.

Beynac & Chateau Beynac

Beynac is not only – officially - one of France’s most beautiful villages, it’s an accolade we think it really deserves and is one of our favourites. Apart from being beautiful in its own right, it’s also home to the 12th century Chateau de Beynac which offers great views across the surrounding countryside and river and features amazing tapestries and 15th century frescoes.

River beaches in the dordogne

Summer temperatures slip easily over 30°, and although it’s nice to get in the pool, there are safe places to sunbathe, paddle and swim all along the Dordogne, or one of the other local rivers. Some are close enough to villages to allow you to top up a picnic with an ice-cream or cold drink, others have their own snack-bars or cafes and even lifeguards.
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