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Périgueux

Périgueux: 31000 Paris inhabitants 500 km. - Limoges 100 km, Bordeaux 120 km, Brive 72 km - Agglomeration of 64.000 hab.
- Modern and old City (Gallo-Roman, moyenâgeuse and Renaissance).
Capital of Périgord located at the center of white Périgord

District of Périgueux: 173000 Inhabitants - 196 Communes - 18 Canton

Founded 2000 years ago, Périgueux is a city whose history can be read in its two distinct districts.

The ancient city, located at the site of old Vésone, is dominated by the cupolas of Saint-Etienne. Many vestiges testify there to the magnificence of the old Gallo-Roman city.

The old city, towards the district of Holy Puy Face, gathers in a vast unit entirely restored, medieval buildings and splendors of the Rebirth. In background, white cupolas of the cathedral Saint Face, splendid testimony of art novel-Byzantine.

The town of Périgueux is famous since the Middle Ages for its markets with the fat - geese, ducks, livers and truffles - where you can go every Wednesday and Saturdays morning, of mid-November in mid-March. Once a month, at the time of preceded markets, tasting, music and dances périgourdines are also with the program.

Périgueux, a single whole in the Dordogne

Old Gallo-Roman city Vesunna at the city medieval-Rebirth, Périgueux offers 2000 years to you
of history with 39 classified buildings or registered voters “historic buildings”. In the middle of the one of the vastest safeguarded sectors of France, the Byzantine Cathedral Saint-Face,
major stage on the ways of Saint Jacques de Compostelle, belongs to the world inheritance of UNESCO since 1998.

A little HISTORY

Founded it there has two thousand years, Périgueux, prefecture capital of the Dordogne, is a mixture of antique and modern. The history of the town of Périgueux started when four Celtic tribes amalgamated to become Petrucores. They were installed on the hills giving on the river (Isle) until they were controlled by the Novels. The discovery of the Gallo-Romans vestiges how the city would have been in 1st and of the 2èmes centuries, the Romans built in the valley Vesunna, an imposing city (between 15 and 20000 inhabitants), which, at the 3rd century, was locked up by a defensive circular wall. At the 4th century, Vesunna which had become a small city was baptized name of its inhabitants “Civitas Petrocoriorum”. The city declined during the Middle Ages. The 9th century, it resisted the attacks of Norman thanks to its thick defensive wall. As from the 10th century, the birth of another city gave fresh impulse to the valley. A vault and a monastery were built apart from the walls closing again the tomb of the apostle of Périgord, whose name was Saint-Before, which attracted many pilgrims.

The traders, the craftsmen who wanted to grow rich traded has to negotiate with the ecclesiastics and the travellers and fixed themselves near. This population gave rise to the “Borough of Puy Saint-Saint-Face”. At the 13th century, the new city developed and was surrounded by a rampart, of 1.6 long kilometer with 28 turns and 12 doors. In 1240, in the reign of Saint-Louis, the city and the “Borough” formed a city called Périgueux. During centuries, Périgueux, protected by its defensive wall, remained without change. But as from the 18th century, the city started to develop .Au delà du wall a modern city appeared and in 1790 it became the prefecture of the department of the Dordogne. At the 19th century, the number of inhabitants increased much. But it is only when the rail passed by Périgueux into 1856 that the city really increased (5700 inhabitants in 1801, 13000 inhabitants in 1850, 31300 of 1890).

At the 20th century, the agglomeration of Périgueux developed by the close villages, exceeding the loop of Isle. The agglomeration of Périgueux is composed of 9 communes and has, according to the census of population made in 1999, approximately 65000 inhabitants while Périgueux itself has approximately 32500 inhabitants.