Traveling Plan

The principal idea is the visit to a zone of France in which we prune to find vestiges of the past in its villages and castles. Walking along its streets and walls transport us to the medieval epoch, trying its gastronomy based on duck and goose in all its variants, and admiring besides its beautiful environment, an architecture that looks like taken out of the historical novels.

 

A bit of history

Périgord in the Middles ages. The 11th century marked the beginning of the popularity of Périgord. It was divided in two, up to the end of the Middle Ages: politician, during the hundred years War between Frenchmen and english men and of the religion between the Catholics and Protestants. This explains why there are so many castles, churches and villages that still today can be visited, many of them strengthened and in almost perfect conditions, preserved relatively without touching in the periods that continued. Périgord formed the part of Eleanor de Aquitaine dowry that contributed in her union to Louis VII in 1137, the future king of France. Aquitaine was well received by the Frenchman, satisfying an old dream, which was broken fifteen years later, when the union was dissolved. Eleanor obtained her dowry as well as her freedom. Two months later, she married Henri Plantagenet, count of Anjou and master of Maine, Touraine and Normandy, who little later inherited the throne of England. France did not manage to recover Aquitaine after hundreds of years of fighting, in 1453.