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Free range goose breeding farm, force-feeding, canning, beekeeping, truffle farm, organic cereals, sheep, meats.
A bucolic setting where you can find the best of the best.
Come and discover the Périgord walnut at Lucette and Michel Dubreuil-Lachaud's farm.
Taste the walnut pralines coated with tender caramel, walnut macaroons, light moist sponge cakes, walnut confit, salted roasted kernels, noisade on toast and of course walnut oil.
Covid 19
- walnut cakes, macaroons, financiers
- Cannelés with walnuts
- Sweet or savoury spreads
- Organic nuts and kernels
- Organic confectionery
Pick-up on Fridays all day long. minimum order 20€, 2 days in advance please.
Discovered in 1995 the cave amazed its finder and speleologists.
Now the public can see the diversity of its concretions. Visit the village of Tourtoirac: its prehistory, its abbey.
Les Vergers de la Guillou organises guided tours of the farm, walnut groves and its nut production.
These visits present the different stages of the walnut cultivation: the orchard, its maintenance, its harvest, its sorting, its drying... In other words, all the work carried out on the farm in order to obtain walnuts and kernels "AOP Noix du Périgord" (PDO Noix du Périgord).
15 km from the A89 motorway (exit 17), built on a rocky spur surrounded by a village, the Château de Hautefort reflects the rank and power of the Marquis of Hautefort. Its French garden and English park contribute to its reputation in the Périgord Noir. During your visit, enjoy the view of the boxwood gardens from the castle's circular walkway.
Punctuated by pruned shrubs and paths featuring plant sculptures, the flowerbeds of this formal garden, which opens onto a hilly panorama, are enhanced with different colours every year. Take a walk in the English-style park, created in the 19th century by the Count of Choulot, one of the greatest landscape designers of the time. Every year in June, "rendez-vous au jardin" is an opportunity to discover the gardens of the Château de Hautefort accompanied by the head gardener.
Château d’Hautefort is located 28 km north of Montignac and the Lascaux caves in the Vézère Valley of the Dordogne.
This fortress, which once belonged to Bertran de Born, is a blend of medieval defence features with a classical centre castle built between 1630 and 1670. The castle was transformed into a leisure manor in the 17th century, and today it houses a remarkable collection of period furniture from the 17th and 18th centuries. Includes an English-style park and French-style gardens designed by the Count of Choulot in the 19th century along terraces; the garden is now on the register of historic places.