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St Alvère in the Périgord :
the first truffle market
in France to have gone
on-line !


 
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The castle stands high above the village; the keep and ramparts date from the twelfth century while the chapel and outbuildings are sixteenth and seventeenth-century.

Next to the village church stands a magnificent sixteenth-century covered market hall supported by stone pillars. The sixteenth and seventeenth-century village houses are delightful.
Two sign-posted circuits indicate lovely walks.

A Romanesque Church, dedicated to St Christopher, and situated in the middle of the graveyard about a kilometre from the village, was the parish church until 1847 when a new church was built within the confines of the village itself. The small Romanesque church has a short, timber roof-framed nave and a flat chevet with twelfth-century vaulting and a tower.

In 1980, magnificent medieval paintings were discovered in the church’s interior. The heads of three people dating from the twelfth century can be seen on the south wall of the nave. On the north wall is a representation of Léonard de Noblat, patron saint of pregnant women, prisoners and the mad. This mural was painted at some point during the thirteenth century. The chevet was decorated during the late Middle Ages with a representation of Christ surrounded by four paintings depicting Saint Christopher, the Annunciation, the Last Supper and scenes from the furnaces of hell.
 

Town Hall :
05.53.63.24.60
 

   
  -Saint Christophe church