A small Renaissance château in the green Périgord, built in the 1510s and often compared with the châteaux of the Loire. Its towers and dormer windows are richly carved, as is the great fireplace inside, showing the labours of Hercules.
The Grotte de Villars, with prehistoric paintings and stalactites, is nearby, as is the town of Brantôme.
The cave of Lascaux, discovered in 1940, holds some of the finest prehistoric paintings in the world: bulls, horses and deer painted about 17,000 yea…
The Vézère valley around Les Eyzies holds an exceptional concentration of prehistoric caves and shelters, a World Heritage Site.
Cognac, a small town on the Charente River, is the home of the brandy of the same name, and the great cognac houses offer tours in several languages.
The castle where King François I was born in 1494, beside the Charente River in the centre of Cognac.
The largest underground church in Europe, carved out of the solid limestone hill beneath Saint-Émilion in the 11th and 12th centuries.
A medieval hilltop village of honey-coloured stone and steep cobbled lanes, surrounded by some of the world's most famous vineyards, a UNESCO World H…
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