Theme Week Dordogne – Boulazac
Friday, 24 July 2020 - 12:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union Category/Kategorie: General
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Château du Lieu-Dieu © Fred Scalliet/cc-by-sa-3.0
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Boulazac Isle Manoire has been a French
commune nouvelle in the
Dordogne department in the
Nouvelle-Aquitaine region with a population of 10,600 since January 1, 2016. The municipality belongs to the
Arrondissement Périgeux and the
canton of
Isle-Manoire . It emerged from the fusion of
Atur ,
Boulazac and
Saint-Laurent-sur-Manoire . On January 1, 2017,
Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac joined the municipality.
Boulazac Isle Manoire is located about five kilometers east-southeast of the city center of Périgueux on the Isle , into which the Manoire flows, and is surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Trélissac in the north, Bassillac et Auberoche in the east and northeast, Saint-Pierre-de-Chignac in the east and Southeast, La Douze in the southeast, Lacropte in the south, Sanilhac in the south and west, and Périgueux in the northwest.
Memorial of the resistance and deportation in the Dordogne © Père Igor/cc-by-sa-3.0
Attractions include:
Atur
Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption church, Romanesque building from the 12th and 13th centuries. Century, 14th century bell tower, monument historique since 1947
Death lantern from the 12th century
Lafaye Castle
Le Breuilh Castle from the 15th century, conversions and additions in the 17th century
Beauvigier castle
Pommier Castle
Mazardia pigeon tower
Boulazac
Château du Lieu-Dieu with pigeon house
Saint-Jean-Baptiste neo-Gothic church
Chapel of St. Francis of Assisi
Lamoura Park
Pigeon house in Jaunour
Saint-Laurent-sur-Manoire
Saint-Laurent church with choir from the 12th century and later additions, Monument historique since 1986
Mansion from the 18th century, today’s town hall
Charterhouse La Croix Rouge
Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac
Romanesque church of Notre-Dame from the 12th century, rebuilt in the 14th and 16th centuries, monument historique since 1926/2003
La Rolandie castle from the 18th century
Charterhouse of Taboury
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