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From the perched villages to the mighty castles to the seemingly endless vineyards with grapes ripe and inviting France has wonders for every walkers’ interest.

The quaint stone villages speak to centuries long gone when only the hillsides were able to alert people to the threat of attack. The cobblestone streets through the villages whisper to you of the artists and authors who resided and depicted these fields and hills just as when they too beheld them.

The mighty castles not only give you a first hand view of French aristocracy and the courts of Louis XIV but as you walk down the carriage paths between villages and chateaux with woods as far as your eye can see, you truly understand the opulence and verdant attraction this area had then as today.

For all the would be sommeliers, the Dordogne region is beckoning – ample time for fun stories and tales of the rich history in the rolling hills as you make your way from vineyard and castle to fortress and vineyard.

This area of south west France, known as the ‘Quercy’, just south of the Dordogne, was given by Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henri d’Anjou in 1152, two years before he became Henry II of England, and its beauty and timelessness has changed little since. In addition, it is still known today as being the gastronomic [...]

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This is an area of France rich with culture and history. It is an area full of extraordinary valley-dominant chateaux, caverns measureless to man and a gastronomy that rates as the roots of the greatness of French cooking. It lies between the Loire Valley and the High Pyrenees and is named after the great river [...]

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