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Périgueux in Aquitaine

Thursday, 18 July 2013 - 01:02 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union
Category/Kategorie: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  < 1 minute

🔊 Listen to this Post Périgueux is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France. Périgueux is the prefecture of the départment and was the capital of the historic County of Périgord. The city has 30,000 inhabitants and is the biggest city in the Dordogne department. River Isle flow from east to west through the city.

The name Périgueux comes from Petrocorii, a Latinization of Celtic words meaning “the four tribes” – the Gallic people that held the area before the Roman conquest. Périgueux was their capital city. In 200 BC, the Petrocorii came from the north and settled at Périgueux and established an encampment at La Boissière. After the Roman invasion, they left this post and established themselves on the plain of L’Isle, and the town of Vesunna was created. At the end of the third century AD, the Roman city was surrounded by ramparts, and the town took the name of Civitas Petrocoriorum. In the 10th century, Le Puy-Saint-Front was constructed around an abbey next to the old Gallo-Roman city. Together with Vesunna It formed the municipality of Périgueux in 1240.

There is an amphitheatre, the remains of a temple of the Gallic goddess, “Vesunna”, and a luxurious Roman villa, called the “Domus of Vesunna”, built around a garden courtyard surrounded by a colonnaded perisink.

The cathedral of St Front was built after 1120 AD and restored in the 19th century. The local architect, Paul Abadie (1812–1884), was responsible for radical changes to St Front’s which are no longer appreciated by architects or local residents who prefer the purer Romanesque church of Saint-Étienne de la Cité, the former Cathedral of Périgueux. The cathedral is part of the World Heritage Sites of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France.

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