{"id":33429,"date":"2023-07-15T02:15:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=33429"},"modified":"2023-10-21T05:46:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:46:46","slug":"perigord-noir-france-%f0%9f%87%ab%f0%9f%87%b7-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=33429","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e9rigord Noir, France \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 13th July 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled: 80 kms from Saint-Cyprien to V\u00e9zac  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited: Pays-de-Belv\u00e8s  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: V\u00e9zac Aire CC, \u20ac13, N44.82450, E01.16950  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget: 52 days @ \u20ac87 per day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last night we shared the aire in Cyprien with Kathleen and Frazer from Blighty. We chatted about this and that as they outlined their plans to return home and we talked about continuing our tour of France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saint-Cyprien is not a tourist Mecca but its a pleasant walk in the evening, although the pictures below all look very quiet there\u2019s lots of preparation going on. Apparently there\u2019s a market tonight and then a street party for Bastille Day tomorrow evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cannot say it was our best nights sleep as some lager lads mixed up the dates and started the celebrations about 3 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having done what needed to be done, we say goodbye to our neighbours, setting the GPS for Pays-de-Belv\u00e9s, it\u2019s almost an hours drive on the backroads and a little out of our way, but it looks interesting and we won\u2019t pass this way again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arriving in Pays-de-Belv\u00e9s<\/a> we find a convenient street parking spot rather than drive through the old town to a designated car-park. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From our guide book the Most Beautiful Villages in France you\u2019ll find Pays-de-Belv\u00e9s on page 170. Belv\u00e9s is situated in the Dordogne, its hilltop position overlooks the River Nauze providing views across the P\u00e9rigord Noir. Our guide book tells us Belv\u00e9s strategic position led to it being regularly sacked by the English during the Hundred Years\u2019 War. Hence its somewhat surprising that much of its gothic construction from the Middle Ages survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the village of seven bell towers so we head off looking for towers\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Marie (Town Hall) stand on the ruins of an ancient chapel only its belfry survives <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The \u00c9glise de Notre-Dame-de-I\u2019Assumption <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking along the Nave, it\u2019s famous for it renaissance artworks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wanted one of these in 1975<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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So we continue to wander looking for towers, walking up tiny laneways and peering into shops and houses as we do. The views across the valley and the adjoining farmland all make for a beautiful walk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I doubt we found seven bell towers but we did spend a good deal of time trying. Belv\u00e9s is probably the largest of the villages we\u2019ve explored so far this trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day is getting on as we set the GPS for an aire in nearby V\u00e9zac. As it\u2019s the Bastille Day long weekend here in France we plan on spending a few nights in our next stop. The aire adjoins a campsite which not surprising we find, is fully booked, but we get a spot in the aire. It\u2019s half the price of the campsite but we can use the pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

V\u00e9zac stands on the River Dordogne, pictured below. As the sunsets hot air balloons rise from somewhere further up the valley giving us something to watch until dusk, see the cover photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Date: 13th July 2023 Travelled: 80 kms from Saint-Cyprien to V\u00e9zac   Visited: Pays-de-Belv\u00e8s   Stayed: V\u00e9zac Aire CC, \u20ac13, N44.82450, E01.16950   Budget: 52 days @ \u20ac87 per day Last night we shared the aire in Cyprien with Kathleen and Frazer from Blighty. We chatted about this and that as they outlined their plans to return […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":33455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[72],"class_list":{"0":"post-33429","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\/33429","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=33429"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35183,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33429\/revisions\/35183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}