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



Interior of the Church

The 12th century, Romanesque St Loup Church, with its wall-belfry and semi-circular apse, was placed on the Supplementary Inventory of Historical Monuments in 1974. Various works of art in the church are also on the Inventory.
• A late 18th century, gilt wood and polychrome tabernacle urn.
• 18th century candlesticks and a gilt, wooden crucifix.
• A polychrome retable restored in 1885.
• Two restored paintings depicting the Holy Family.

 

 
Tabernacle Urn
 

OTHER SITES OF HISTORICAL INTEREST

The Château de Marsalès,
a building steeped in history, is huge and rectangular with round towers at two of its corners and wings leading off them. The whole forms a U-shaped courtyard closed with iron railings and an ornate wrought-iron gate. In 1793 the railings were used as pikes and a few years later as ploughshares.

The Château de Laroque is a vast two-storied building. Machicolations above the door and on the western corner give it a military appearance. A pile of stones near the ‘Bretonne’ is known as « The Demolished Church » and legend has it that a church collapsed here burying a certain Saint Alix beneath its ruins. Near the ‘Borie Neuve’ can be seen several funnel-shaped depressions known as « gobe » (to swallow ?) which fill with water when it rains.

 
Dolmen
 

The dolmen (see above) called «l’Oustal de Loup» has been the subject of an article in the « Périgourdin History and Archaeology Society » newsletter.