Spending your holiday in France means enjoyment, joie de vivre and always a smile on your lips! The joie de vivre of the French is contagious and makes a trip to the land of culinary highlights a pure pleasure. There is not only Provence to discover, but the uniquely green landscapes of the Périgord region. Around the capital Périgueux the journey into the interior of the limestone cliffs and grain fields begins. Scenes worthy of paintings will accompany the traveller every day of the holiday.
A trip to the Périgord means a trip to the highest culinary pleasures and excursions into nature as God created it. Anyone who holidays in France will find in and around the Périgord everything that delights the senses and the heart. The cuisine is famous for breaking new ground. Périgord truffles and the cuisine made with goose fat are legendary and enjoy worldwide fame. Everything that nature around the Périgord uplands yields can be found as herbs in the exquisite cuisine.
The villages and towns lie as if out of fairy tales, embedded in picturesque nature. Some towns that absolutely must be visited on a journey through the Périgord are Beynac-et-Cazenac and Limeuil. Beynac-et-Cazenac impresses at first sight with Beynac castle rising out of the forests. In Limeuil you can experience the symbiosis of two rivers that come together before the observer’s eyes like a pair of lovers. The Vézère and the Dordogne are the names of the two rivers that offer the traveller this natural spectacle on holiday.
A holiday in the middle of the Périgord landscapes takes you far from everyday life. The area is divided into four parts. The Périgord Blanc is famous for its almost white grain fields and endlessly wide valleys, with a view beyond the horizon and further.
The Périgord Noir, known worldwide for walnut groves and huge flocks of greylag geese, which present a surreal picture in the middle of the plantations and once again make the traveller aware of the variety of landscape achievements France has to offer.
The Périgord Vert, in the north. Anyone looking for a holiday far from hustle and bustle and people will gladly settle here for longer and plan no further trip to other parts of the Périgord. For many the journey ends here, since paradise has been reached: the streams and rivers with their lush green, the air permeated with the smells of tobacco, walnuts and sunflowers.
France may rightly pride itself on its cuisine! Only here does the gourmet dare to eat Pommes de Terre Sarladais! Potato slices fried in duck or goose fat. Served with black truffles. France, or rather a trip to the Périgord, enriches many a holidaymaker with a further delight for the palate.
Last but not least: the Périgord Pourpre! This is where the culinary journey through France should end. The cradle of French cuisine is found here. The journey comes to an end. The gourmet has arrived.