The drive to Sarlat took a few hours and became prettier and more bucolic the closer to our destination. I did tire of listening to the google nav lady say the word "roundabout." There are a lot of roundabouts in the Dordogne.
We stopped in the pretty town of Sainte Alvère where we ate pastries from a tiny patisserie.
The remains of this 13th century tower proudly overlook the village and testify to the old stronghold led by the lords of Sainte-Alvère. The thickness of the walls illustrates the military construction technique of mediaeval castles.
The former keep. What is left of that 13th century tower bears witness to the former fortified town run by the lords of Sainte-Alvère.
The beautiful apparatus of cut stones forms the two walls of the wall.
Between these two walls, the masons fill the space with a blockage composed of pebbles, called rubble, taken in mortar (chaux and sand).
This murderer is a cruciform archer with a gunboat in the shape of a cross.
It served as a viseur for the archer or crossbowmen.
With the invention of firearms in the 15th century, it was transformed to adapt to the use of the first guns.
Text on the tower
The remains of this 13th century tower proudly overlook the village and testify to the old stronghold led by the lords of Sainte-Alvère. The thickness of the walls illustrates the military construction technique of mediaeval castles.
The former keep. What is left of that 13th century tower bears witness to the former fortified town run by the lords of Sainte-Alvère.
The beautiful apparatus of cut stones forms the two walls of the wall.
Between these two walls, the masons fill the space with a blockage composed of pebbles, called rubble, taken in mortar (chaux and sand).
This murderer is a cruciform archer with a gunboat in the shape of a cross.
It served as a viseur for the archer or crossbowmen.
With the invention of firearms in the 15th century, it was transformed to adapt to the use of the first guns.
Text on the tower
The remains of this 13th century tower proudly overlook the village and testify to the old stronghold led by the lords of Sainte-Alvère. The thickness of the walls illustrates the military construction technique of mediaeval castles.
The former keep. What is left of that 13th century tower bears witness to the former fortified town run by the lords of Sainte-Alvère.
The beautiful apparatus of cut stones forms the two walls of the wall.
Between these two walls, the masons fill the space with a blockage composed of pebbles, called rubble, taken in mortar (chaux and sand).
This murderer is a cruciform archer with a gunboat in the shape of a cross.
It served as a viseur for the archer or crossbowmen.
With the invention of firearms in the 15th century, it was transformed to adapt to the use of the first guns.
Text on the tower