Dordogne
The Dordogne is a region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Dordogne is one of France's best-loved areas. Castles, châteaux, and other important historical museums are sprinkled throughout the region, offering enough historical interest for any aficionado, but attractively distributed throughout a breathtaking scenery that needs no scholarly tendencies to enjoy it.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Périgueux and Sarlat-la-Canéda.
Périgueux
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Périgueux is a commune in the Dordogne department, in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. Périgueux is the prefecture of Dordogne, and the capital city of Périgord. It is also the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese.
Sarlat-la-Canéda
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Sarlat-la-Canéda is a city in Dordogne, Southwestern France. This city is famous for its historic centre constituting a leading medieval and Renaissance urban ensemble, which has earned it the classification of "city of art and history”.
Bergerac
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Bergerac is a commune and a sub-prefecture of the Dordogne department within the Nouvelle-Aquitaine administrative region. It has been designated a "town of art and history".
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Rocamadour and Beynac-et-Cazenac.
Rocamadour
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Rocamadour is a commune in the Lot department in southwestern France. It lies in the former province of Quercy. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France Association.
Beynac-et-Cazenac
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Beynac-et-Cazenac is a village located in the Dordogne department in southwestern France. The medieval Château de Beynac is located in the commune. The village is classified as one of Les plus beaux villages de France.
Monpazier
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Monpazier is one of the finest examples of a bastide town and a commune in the Dordogne département of France. Built in 1284 by Edward I of England it follows the classic plan of a bastide, built round a square surrounded by arcades, with a large church near the centre.
Eymet
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Eymet is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is notable as a popular location amongst English speaking immigrants, with Britons accounting for a quarter of the population.
Montignac
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Montignac-Lascaux, is a commune in the Dordogne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Southwestern France. It is a small town situated on the Vézère river and has been the capital of the canton of Montignac since 1790.
Brantôme
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Brantôme is a former commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Brantôme en Périgord.
Saint-Jean-de-Côle
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Saint-Jean-de-Côle is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France Association.
Riberac
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Ribérac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. The commune is situated by the Dronne River.
Eygurande-et-Gardedeuil
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Eygurande et Gardedeuil is in the Dordogne region of Aquitaine in Southwestern France.
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Dordogne
- Type: department of France with 413,000 residents
- Description: French department in New Aquitaine
- Also known as: “24”, “Department of Dordogne”, and “FR-24”
- Neighbors: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Gironde, Lot, and Lot-et-Garonne
- Location: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Dordogne” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Dordogne”
- Afrikaans: “Dordogne”
- Albanian: “Dordogne”
- Arabic: “دردنية”
- Arabic: “دُردُنية”
- Arabic: “دوردونيي”
- Aragonese: “Dordonya”
- Armenian: “Դորդոն”
- Arpitan: “Dordogne”
- Azerbaijani: “Dordon”
- Basque: “Dordoina”
- Belarusian: “Дардонь (дэпартамент)”
- Belarusian: “Дардонь”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Дардонь”
- Bengali: “দোর্দোগ্নে”
- Breton: “Dordogne”
- Breton: “Dordonha”
- Bulgarian: “Дордон”
- Catalan: “Dordonya”
- Cebuano: “Dordogne”
- Chechen: “ДогӀдонь”
- Chechen: “Дордонь департамент”
- Chinese: “Dordogne”
- Chinese: “多尔多涅省”
- Chinese: “多爾多涅”
- Chinese: “多爾多涅省”
- Chuvash: “Дордонь”
- Corsican: “Dordogna”
- Czech: “Dordogne”
- Dagbani: “Dordonya”
- Danish: “Dordogne”
- Dutch: “Dordogne (departement)”
- Dutch: “Dordogne”
- Esperanto: “Dordogne”
- Estonian: “Dordogne’i departemang”
- Finnish: “Dordogne”
- French: “département de la Dordogne”
- French: “Département de la Dordogne”
- French: “Dordogne”
- French: “FR-24”
- Galician: “Dordoña”
- Georgian: “დორდონი”
- German: “Departement Dordogne”
- German: “Département Dordogne”
- German: “Dordogne”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Dordogne”
- Greek: “Δορδόνη”
- Greek: “Ντορντόνι”
- Gujarati: “દોર્દોગ્ને”
- Hakka Chinese: “Dordogne-sén”
- Hebrew: “דורדון”
- Hindi: “दॉरदॉग्ने”
- Hindi: “दोर्दोंग”
- Hungarian: “Dordogne”
- Indonesian: “Dordogne”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Dordogne”
- Irish: “département de la Dordogne”
- Irish: “Dordogne”
- Italian: “Dordogna”
- Japanese: “ドルドーニュ県”
- Kannada: “ಡೋರ್ಡೋಗ್ನೆ”
- Kazakh: “Дордонь”
- Kongo: “Dordogne”
- Korean: “도르도뉴”
- Korean: “도르도뉴주”
- Ladin: “Dordogne”
- Ladino: “Dordogne”
- Latin: “Dordonia”
- Latin: “Duranius”
- Latvian: “Dordoņa”
- Limburgan: “Dordogne”
- Lithuanian: “Dordonė”
- Lombard: “Dordogne”
- Low German: “Dordogne”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Dordogne”
- Macedonian: “Дордоња”
- Malagasy: “Dordogne”
- Malay: “Dordogne”
- Malayalam: “ഡോർഡോഗ്നെ”
- Marathi: “दोर्गोन्य”
- Marathi: “दोर्दोन्य”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dordogne”
- Northern Frisian: “Dordogne (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Dordogne”
- Northern Sami: “Dordogne”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dordogne”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dordogne”
- Norwegian: “Dordogne”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dordonha”
- Ossetian: “Дордонь”
- Pampanga: “Dordogne”
- Persian: “دوردون”
- Persian: “دوردونی”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd la Dordogna”
- Polish: “Dordogne”
- Portuguese: “Dordonha”
- Romanian: “departamentul Dordogne”
- Romanian: “Dordogne”
- Russian: “Дордонь”
- Sardinian: “Dordogna”
- Scots: “Dordogne”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dordogne”
- Serbian: “Дордоња”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dordogne”
- Sinhala: “ඩොර්ඩොග්නේ”
- Slovak: “Dordogne”
- Slovenian: “Dordogne”
- Spanish: “Dordoña”
- Swahili: “Dordogne”
- Swedish: “Dordogne”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Дордон”
- Tamil: “டோர்டோக்னே”
- Telugu: “డార్డోని”
- Thai: “จังหวัดดอร์ดอญ”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Dordogne”
- Turkish: “Dordogne”
- Ukrainian: “департамент Дордонь”
- Ukrainian: “Дордонь”
- Urdu: “ڈورڈوین”
- Venetian: “Dordogna”
- Vietnamese: “Dordogne”
- Vlaams: “Dordogne”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dordogne”
- Welsh: “Dordogne”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع دوردون”
- Wu Chinese: “多尔多涅省”
- Yue Chinese: “多爾多涅”
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