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


 

Registered on the list of Historical Monuments

 
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This is a Gothic-style church with a single nave and a polygonal choir. It is covered with four intersecting ribs. The nave is windowless but the choir is lit by five large bays, one of which has a small curved filling under the arc.

On the west side:
-a side chapel opens onto the nave’s large east bay. It has intersecting ribs.
-the western façade consists of angle buttresses, a gate topped with a wall recess, and at a higher level, a solid wall.

On the south-east side, there is a sacristy at the angle of the church.
On the north:
- on the wall, a semicircular arcade, the remains of a second side chapel
- a square tower-steeple, which was built during the 18th century.
- a small presbytery

Montaigne - Gurson - La Force Tourist Information Office
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