What to do, setting in the Lady of the Violette

Setting in Sarlat you will have thousand of things to see and to do, between you can choose.

Please find below just a list, of few things, but visiting also my other pages of Sarlat and Dordogne you will have much more ideas.

Everything around mean history, you can leave between mediaeval houses, discover castles on the hills, eat the famous "foie gras" and enjoy the prehistoric caves, but you have so many things to see and to visit that you will be surprised.

Sarlat is the capital of Black Périgord, is an exceptionally preserved city. More than 1000 years of living architecture through the streets, the rooftops of lauzes and stone walls and hot blonde.
Sarlat became a city in the 8th century. Boundary between the Kings of France and England during the Hundred Years War, it became French in 1360 and released ten years later by Du Guesclin. The cathedral of Saint-Sacerdos was built under Henri IV. From the 18th century, Sarlat dormant for 150 years before becoming successful with the arrival of the railway.
The exceptional number of listed buildings or ordered per square meter because of Sarlat the first European city in terms of heritage. Sarlat has long been the natural setting of many films.

The Black Perigord is made from magnificent landscapes, castles profusely, visits to farms with tasting, picturesque villages, prehistoric caves, wildlife parks, beautiful gardens ...

The challenge is to choose!

The wisest course would be to return.

Sarlat offer many openair events or inside her buildings, concerts, drama, movies festival, festival of food, art showrooms and exibitions. Please visit the links you will find in Sarlat to have more details and the dates.

Everyweek, on wednesday and on saturday all day all year around, offer a spectacolous market just few metres from the house. You can walk through food, frech specialities, spices, herbs, parfumes, clothes, materials....The people come from all over to visit this marketto buy fresh fruits, vegetables and many more.

Just outside Sarlat you can visit Castles, famous Caves, Antiques gardens........ as the follows:

The gardens of the Manor d'Eyrignac, The Eyrignac Manor Gardens are undoubtedly the finest gardens in the Perigord. Together with the 17th-century manorhouse, they are classified as Monuments Historic

The Rock of Saint Christophe
The prehistoric and historic site of the Roque Saint Christophe is a unique complex because of its size (1 km long over 5 levels with more than 100 rock shelters in the rock),

The gardens de Marqueyssac - Belvédère de la Dordogne
The Gardens of Marqueyssac : the greatest views of the Périgord … It is the most visited garden of the Périgord. A listed site, the romantic and picturesque gardens of Marqueyssac

The caves of Villars
This cave is interesting both from a geological and a prehistoric point of view. During the guided tour you will be able to admire impressive flows of calcite, delicate stalactites

The caves of Roc de Cazelle
Prehistory - History - Nature
Caves and shelters.
Numerous reconstructions of the daily life of our distant ancestors, from the prehistory untill the Middle Ages

Grottes de Lacave
After the access to the heart of the caves by the electric train, the visit starts at the chaos room and continues to the tarasque hall where a rock seems to represent some fabulous animal.

Za-GORODKA
Gorodka, a contemporary site  with modern created from the artist Pierre Shasmoukine

Château de Hautefort
The elegant silhouette of the Château de Hautefort is situated on the summit of the plateau that dominates the valley of Beuze and Lourde.

Gouffre de Proumeyssac
Proumeyssac is currently the largest developed cave in the Périgord.

Château de Castelnaud - War museum au Moyen Age
The medieval castle of Castelnaud is built on a rocky outcrop and offers a splendid panorama on the Dordogne valley.Through a collection of arms and armours,

La Maison Forte de Reignac
Listed as an historical monument, "the Château" is not only the Perigord's best kept secret, but also the most unusual and most shrouded in mystery.

Lascaux II
Paléolithique supérieur -35 000/-10 000.
The fac-simile, of the original cave at  200m, reproduction of the Taurus hall and the others.

The Gardens of the imaginations:
A discovery unique in Europe for garden lovers, professionals and simply for those who love nature.

Canoe in the Dordogne or a tour on the boat on this wonderful river