10 km from the estate
Just a ten-minute drive away, this beautiful village is set in the Vézère valley between Montignac and Les Eyzies. You will find a couple of cafés with delicious ice cream, a few restaurants in the centre and galleries. The river is fantastic for swimming, with wonderful picnic spots — and a great place to start a canoe trip on the Vézère.
6.5 km from the estate
Nicknamed “the Sistine Chapel of Prehistory”, Lascaux is the original cave discovered in 1940 with wall paintings an estimated 17,000 years old. The paintings are primarily of large animals, typical of the local fauna of the Upper Paleolithic.
5 km from the estate
Halfway between Les Eyzies and Montignac-Lascaux, this cliff has been occupied for 55,000 years and was a fort and a city in the Middle Ages. Here you travel through time, understanding the life of the people of the cliffs — five minutes from Domaine du Peuch.
33 km from the estate
The most authentic feudal fortress of the Périgord. Perched high on a cliff at breath-taking height, the castle has watched over the Dordogne for nine centuries. Visiting Château de Beynac is a unique and unforgettable experience.
20 min from the estate
The Musée national des Eyzies sits at the centre of the world's biggest concentration of sites occupied and embellished by mankind. Among the 12,000 artefacts on show, jewels and objects from the daily existence of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers bring the human epic to life.
15 min from the estate
One of the largest known decorated caves, with eight kilometres of corridors and the largest prehistoric cave in the Périgord Noir. Prehistoric artists drew or engraved 260 representations of bison, horses, ibex and woolly rhinoceros — and more than 160 mammoths. You discover this sanctuary aboard an electric train during a one-hour guided visit.
Photos of the surroundings: Wikimedia Commons.