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Périgueux

September 2007

THE ROUTE TO DATE WITH MAPS OF FRANCE AND OF ITS MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGE ROADS

Back to Poitiers to Périgueux the Long Way

Périgueux was a pilgrimage centre on the via Lemovicensis from Vézelay, but you won't find much evidence of that.   Périgueux is the duck liver centre of France, and you will find a lot of evidence of that !

The Cathedral of St-Front in the morning light.  Actually, that's as good as it gets because the exotic promise of the domed church is not followed up by anything attractive after you walk in (another black mark for 1800s "restorers"), and the "Romanesque" end (tower, cloisters etc) which was less monstered, is all closed off. 

So we wandered off through the Saturday morning food markets around the cathedral ......

despite the promotion of Périgueux as a major foodie city, the widely featured Saturday produce market is really nothing special, except of course in this part of the world it's the duck who is king ... and interesting also that there were a couple of stalls selling oysters and shellfish.

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