Sarlat-la-Canéda is the most famous town in the region, located in the Périgord Noir and is one of the most famous and most visited places in France. It is also one of the most attractive. - At almost any time of the year, it is full of tourists, because in and with the beautifully restored buildings, you can breathe the history and present of the city, which is just a few kilometers north of the Dordogne River. The old town, whose buildings were built during both the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, simply has to be seen at your leisure. The best times of year or day to do so are spring and fall, or early in the morning. If you can catch the early morning sun on the sandstone buildings, it's perfect.
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00:00In the east of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Sarlat La Cunada is located between the valleys of
00:27Dordogne and Wezir.
00:29This is our destination in the Paragore Noir.
00:31And you should not miss it either.
00:38We take a walk through the old town center.
00:40The buildings here were constructed hundreds of years ago.
00:48Cagia Veri from Sarlat Tourism shows us the special features that an unprepared tourist
00:52would not find or would find only by chance.
01:07The listed Manoir de Gissen stands in the heart of Sarlat at the Clos des Rois.
01:16The vaulted floors of the manor house some curiosities.
01:19It was very fashionable at the end of the Renaissance among the notables to collect
01:23and exhibit tasteful objects and unusual things.
01:26During the restoration of the house, great care was taken to authentically recreate the
01:30atmosphere of the daily life of the urban nobility in the 17th century.
02:00We take you to Jardin des Enfeux which is one of the most beautiful passages in the city of Sarlat.
02:04This passage dates from the 12th century when the cathedral was built.
02:10We enlarged the cathedral and we will simply open the passage to welcome the tombs that
02:17you have here which are simply reserved for the richest families of Sarlat, the bourgeois families.
02:23So here we are really in the oldest part of the city of Sarlat.
02:32This part dates from the 12th century.
02:34In fact, the city was created in the 9th century.
02:37It will evolve enormously until the 12th and we really have the traces of the 12th century.
02:42And above all, you have the superb roof tiles.
02:45The tiles are stones.
02:47In fact, these are the roofs that are made with stones from the region and if you look
02:51you have tiles absolutely everywhere.
02:53In addition, in this part there is an acoustic that is grandiose in this slightly closed place.
02:59So we have very, very beautiful shows every summer on this place.
03:21And if you look behind you or in front of me, you have natural gas lighting.
03:37And this natural gas lighting is a lighting that is unique in France, unique in Europe, I think.
03:44Why do we have natural gas lighting?
03:47Simply because this lighting is very soft.
03:49It is not like electricity.
03:51It is rather yellowish, which resembles the torch of the Middle Ages.
03:55And especially at night when this lighting, there is only this lighting, well, this lighting moves,
04:01evaporates and gives life to the stones and brings the stones to life.
04:05So Sarlat by day is beautiful, but Sarlat by night is completely different and it is just as pretty.
04:11It really has to be done.
04:12It is something that is very, very beautiful.
04:16Here we really have a very important period of the city of Sarlat that presents itself.
04:35We are in the middle of a war of its time.
04:38The English are invading the region.
04:40The French are resisting.
04:42The problem is that the border between the French and the English is our beautiful river of Ordogne.
04:47Sarlat is 7 km from the border, so rather far from this border.
04:51Nevertheless, we are still extremely torn because the English want to take the city of Sarlat.
04:57But the bourgeois of the city of Sarlat have always resisted and have never surrendered.
05:02And Sarlat has remained faithful for 116 years to the French crown.
05:12So we are here on the square of the city of Sarlat, which is the main square of Sarlat.
05:20This city is surrounded, I would say, by the square and the heart of the city.
05:24It is really the beating heart of this city.
05:26It is on this square that the markets take place on Wednesdays and Saturdays all day long.
05:31In front of us we have the city hall, which is magnificent.
05:34You have the Saint Mary's Church, which is just behind you, with the Jisson hotel.
05:41And then you have all the bone roofs, which are magnificent.
05:46In fact, this square is really, when you are in Sarlat, it is essential to come to this square,
05:53to have a drink on the square and to breathe the atmosphere of Sarlat,
05:57since it is here that you feel the stones of this city beating.
06:06So this building here is extraordinary and its history is extraordinary.
06:10Here you simply have the Saint Mary's Church.
06:13This church was built during the Hundred Years' War and until the French Revolution, it was a real church.
06:19At the French Revolution, Sarlat made the very, very bad choice to remain royalist.
06:26So all the privileges of the city of Sarlat that we had before the French Revolution,
06:31our court, our bishop, our nobility of robes, our consuls, all these privileges will go.
06:38And we are going to go to Perigueux and Bergerac.
06:41Sarlat becomes very small and the Saint Mary's Church, which is the parish church, no longer exists.
06:46We have the Saint-Sacerdos Cathedral, which is already a very, very large building,
06:50which will welcome the parishioners.
06:52So this building, we're just going to destroy it.
06:55And we're going to destroy it and we're going to turn it into a gunpowder factory, into a slaughterhouse.
07:01So here we are on the Place des Oies, which is the emblematic animal of the city of Sarlat.
07:06The geese in Sarlat are the really emblematic animal.
07:09In fact, today we talk a lot about ducks in Sarlat.
07:12However, the first animal in this region is the goat, since we have had one since the Middle Ages.
07:17And in the past, the geese kept the farms and not the dogs.
07:20It was really the geese that kept the farms, because it's very mean.
07:36And the zoo is incredible, because it's little, but it's big.