{"id":33099,"date":"2023-07-03T04:57:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T18:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=33099"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T04:18:09","slug":"perouges-france-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=33099","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e9rouges, France \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 2nd July 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled: 140 kms from Baum\u00e9-les-Messieurs to P\u00e9rouges <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited: P\u00e9rouges  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: P\u00e9rouges Parking, free, N45.90570, E05.17530  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget: 40 days @ \u20ac95 per day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rain started again about 7 am but promptly stopped and cleared by 8.30 so we thought we better explore P\u00e9rouges whilst we can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From our guide book the Most Beautiful Villages in France you\u2019ll find P\u00e9rouges on page 122.  P\u00e9rouges overlooks the River Ain, it\u2019s situated in the north of the Rh\u00f4ne Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see from the map above and the pictures below P\u00e9rouges<\/a> 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 \u00c9glise Marie-Madeleine (the Forteresse) as the name suggests was fortified as part of the village defences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Port d\u201dEn Haut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The \u00c9glise Marie-Madeleine was closed when we first went past<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wandering about we find a hotel kitchen with a pop out window selling P\u00e9rouges Galette for \u20ac2 a slice, so why not. Looked like a pizza but sweet with a citrus tange, very nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On our second try we find the \u00c9glise 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A small chapel dedicated to Marie Madeleine <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Where would we be without Saint-George<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Last photo is P\u00e9rouges\u2019 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our followers with note we have now visited several of these classified villages and to date P\u00e9rouges is the \u2018most beautiful\u2019. So that was our morning in P\u00e9rouges, then the short drive down to do our washing in Meximieux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael + Pam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: 2nd July 2023 Travelled: 140 kms from Baum\u00e9-les-Messieurs to P\u00e9rouges  Visited: P\u00e9rouges   Stayed: P\u00e9rouges Parking, free, N45.90570, E05.17530   Budget: 40 days @ \u20ac95 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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":33120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[72],"class_list":{"0":"post-33099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-french-villages","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33099"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35171,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33099\/revisions\/35171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}