Selection of the most beautiful monuments in New Aquitaine

Romanesque and Gothic Church
24290 Saint-Amand-de-Coly

The abbey of Saint-Amand-de-Coly, former Augustinian abbey of the 6th century, stands in Saint-Amand-de-Coly in the Dordogne. Only its fortified abbey church remains today, witness to a rich monastic history in Black Perigord.

Sheltered in rock
24620 Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil

The Cro-Magnon shelter, a prehistoric site of the Upper Paleolithic located in the Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in Dordogne, is famous for its graves and grave tools dated about 28,000 years, the eponymous of the Cro-Magnon Man.

Sheltered in rock
24620 Tursac

The Madeleine shelter in Tursac, Dordogne, is a major prehistoric site of the Upper Paleolithic, classified at UNESCO and emblematic of the Magdalenian, with traces of medieval troglodytic occupation.

Sheltered in rock
24620 Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil

The Pataud Shelter is a prehistoric site of the Upper Paleolithic located in the Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil (Dordogne), sheltering lithic tools and vestiges of parietal art under an emblematic cliff of the valley of the Vézère.

Paths of Compostela - At the edge of the tracks
24440 Saint-Avit-Sénieur

The former Abbey of Saint-Avit-Seneur, a 12th-century Romanesque building located in the Dordogne, is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its link to the roads of Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle. This historic monument, marked by fires and restorations, houses medieval remains and a unique architecture.

Dry dordogne stone cabin
24200 Saint-André-d'Allas

Les Cabanes du Breuil, à Saint-André-d'Allas en Dordogne, sont un ensemble d'anciennes annexes agricoles du XIXe siècle, remarquables par leurs voûtes en pierre sèche et toitures de lauses, classées monuments historiques.

Gothic Chapel
24250 Domme

The monolithic chapel of Caudon is a place of underground worship Gallo-Roman and medieval, dug in the cliff of Domme (Dordogne), formerly parish church and surrounded by a troglodytic cemetery.

Castle
24220 Beynac-et-Cazenac

Beynac Castle, a medieval fortress of the twelfth and seventeenth centuries, dominates the Dordogne in Beynac-et-Cazenac in New Aquitaine. Ranked a historic monument, it embodies the defensive architecture of the Black Perigord with its Romanesque dungeon and Renaissance apartments.