Périgueux is undeniably one of the jewels on the french property crown. Surrounded by rolling hills and luscious green valleys topped with medieval castles, ancient renaissance towns punctuated with Roman architecture and using neoclassicism as a simple formality so as not to offend the eye. Périgueux has an abundant wealth of architectural treasures.
In Roman times a thriving city surrounded by ramparts - some of which remain standing to this day - known across the Empire as Civitas Petrucoriorum from where the inhabitants today inherit the name of Pétrocoriens, term originating from the Latin word: Petrocorii ; a Latinisation of the aspiring Celtic denomination of "the four tribes" which inhabited the area before the conquest of the Roman Empire. Embellished throughout the years predominating the decline of a vast and thinly stretched Empire, Périgueux witnessed the construction of Temples, sophisticated Villas, an Amphitheatre, hot Baths and all the expected vernacular of an acutely developed Roman town. The luxurious Roman villa, "Domus of Vesunna", built around a garden courtyard surrounded by a colonnaded Perisink, recently excavated and transformed into the most modern of Roman Villas by renowned French architect Jean Nouvel, in the late nineteen nineties. Located in the heart of the ancient city of Vesunna, this unique museum presents in it's permanent exhibition space an insight into the life of the city during the first, second and third centuries AD. The museum designed as a two story build open on one side overlooks from a balcony the remains of the ancient Gallo-Roman Villa housed within.
Capital of the Périgord, with the spires of an inspiring twelfth century cathedral,
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