Date: 2nd July 2023
Travelled: 140 kms from Baumรฉ-les-Messieurs to Pรฉrouges
Visited: Pรฉrouges
Stayed: Pรฉrouges Parking, free, N45.90570, E05.17530
Budget: 40 days @ โฌ95 per day
We were a little concerned that our free parking place may be a little noisy as people departed later in the evening, but the rain started about 6 pm, thirty minutes later the car park was empty and we enjoyed a quiet night.
The rain started again about 7 am but promptly stopped and cleared by 8.30 so we thought we better explore Pรฉrouges whilst we can.
From our guide book the Most Beautiful Villages in France youโll find Pรฉrouges on page 122. Pรฉrouges overlooks the River Ain, itโs situated in the north of the Rhรดne Valley.
Pรฉrouges, Belley, Ain, Auvergne-Rhรดne-Alpes, Metropolitan France, 01800, France
As you can see from the map above and the pictures below Pรฉrouges was a fortified village. It has a written history going back a thousand years. It was considered a craftsmen and linen weavers village and very prosperous. According to the blurb the รglise Marie-Madeleine (the Forteresse) as the name suggests was fortified as part of the village defences.
Wandering about we find a hotel kitchen with a pop out window selling Pรฉrouges Galette for โฌ2 a slice, so why not. Looked like a pizza but sweet with a citrus tange, very nice.
On our second try we find the รglise is open so we pop in for a quick pre-mass snoop around. I should have taken a picture but the church has several firing slits on the outer walls, never seen that before.
Last photo is Pรฉrougesโ lucky lime tree or what the French call a lime tree. It has stood in the village square for more than 200 years and according to legend brings the village prosperity.
Our followers with note we have now visited several of these classified villages and to date Pรฉrouges is the โmost beautifulโ. So that was our morning in Pรฉrouges, then the short drive down to do our washing in Meximieux.
Michael + Pam
2 thoughts on “Pรฉrouges, France ๐ซ๐ท 2023”
What an exquisite place ๐ drove past on the d1084 and missed out
Safe travels Johannes โค๏ธ
Looks very quaint with those little cobblestone streets.