00:00In the east of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Sarlat La Cunada is located between the valleys of
00:27Dordogne and Wezir.
00:29This is our destination in the Paragore Noir.
00:31And you should not miss it either.
00:38We take a walk through the old town center.
00:40The buildings here were constructed hundreds of years ago.
00:48Cagia Veri from Sarlat Tourism shows us the special features that an unprepared tourist
00:52would not find or would find only by chance.
01:07The listed Manoir de Gissen stands in the heart of Sarlat at the Clos des Rois.
01:16The vaulted floors of the manor house some curiosities.
01:19It was very fashionable at the end of the Renaissance among the notables to collect
01:23and exhibit tasteful objects and unusual things.
01:26During the restoration of the house, great care was taken to authentically recreate the
01:30atmosphere of the daily life of the urban nobility in the 17th century.
02:00We take you to Jardin des Enfeux which is one of the most beautiful passages in the city of Sarlat.
02:04This passage dates from the 12th century when the cathedral was built.
02:10We enlarged the cathedral and we will simply open the passage to welcome the tombs that
02:17you have here which are simply reserved for the richest families of Sarlat, the bourgeois families.
02:23So here we are really in the oldest part of the city of Sarlat.
02:32This part dates from the 12th century.
02:34In fact, the city was created in the 9th century.
02:37It will evolve enormously until the 12th and we really have the traces of the 12th century.
02:42And above all, you have the superb roof tiles.
02:45The tiles are stones.
02:47In fact, these are the roofs that are made with stones from the region and if you look
02:51you have tiles absolutely everywhere.
02:53In addition, in this part there is an acoustic that is grandiose in this slightly closed place.
02:59So we have very, very beautiful shows every summer on this place.
03:21And if you look behind you or in front of me, you have natural gas lighting.
03:37And this natural gas lighting is a lighting that is unique in France, unique in Europe, I think.
03:44Why do we have natural gas lighting?
03:47Simply because this lighting is very soft.
03:49It is not like electricity.
03:51It is rather yellowish, which resembles the torch of the Middle Ages.
03:55And especially at night when this lighting, there is only this lighting, well, this lighting moves,
04:01evaporates and gives life to the stones and brings the stones to life.
04:05So Sarlat by day is beautiful, but Sarlat by night is completely different and it is just as pretty.
04:11It really has to be done.
04:12It is something that is very, very beautiful.
04:16Here we really have a very important period of the city of Sarlat that presents itself.
04:35We are in the middle of a war of its time.
04:38The English are invading the region.
04:40The French are resisting.
04:42The problem is that the border between the French and the English is our beautiful river of Ordogne.
04:47Sarlat is 7 km from the border, so rather far from this border.
04:51Nevertheless, we are still extremely torn because the English want to take the city of Sarlat.
04:57But the bourgeois of the city of Sarlat have always resisted and have never surrendered.
05:02And Sarlat has remained faithful for 116 years to the French crown.
05:12So we are here on the square of the city of Sarlat, which is the main square of Sarlat.
05:20This city is surrounded, I would say, by the square and the heart of the city.
05:24It is really the beating heart of this city.
05:26It is on this square that the markets take place on Wednesdays and Saturdays all day long.
05:31In front of us we have the city hall, which is magnificent.
05:34You have the Saint Mary's Church, which is just behind you, with the Jisson hotel.
05:41And then you have all the bone roofs, which are magnificent.
05:46In fact, this square is really, when you are in Sarlat, it is essential to come to this square,
05:53to have a drink on the square and to breathe the atmosphere of Sarlat,
05:57since it is here that you feel the stones of this city beating.
06:06So this building here is extraordinary and its history is extraordinary.
06:10Here you simply have the Saint Mary's Church.
06:13This church was built during the Hundred Years' War and until the French Revolution, it was a real church.
06:19At the French Revolution, Sarlat made the very, very bad choice to remain royalist.
06:26So all the privileges of the city of Sarlat that we had before the French Revolution,
06:31our court, our bishop, our nobility of robes, our consuls, all these privileges will go.
06:38And we are going to go to Perigueux and Bergerac.
06:41Sarlat becomes very small and the Saint Mary's Church, which is the parish church, no longer exists.
06:46We have the Saint-Sacerdos Cathedral, which is already a very, very large building,
06:50which will welcome the parishioners.
06:52So this building, we're just going to destroy it.
06:55And we're going to destroy it and we're going to turn it into a gunpowder factory, into a slaughterhouse.
07:01So here we are on the Place des Oies, which is the emblematic animal of the city of Sarlat.
07:06The geese in Sarlat are the really emblematic animal.
07:09In fact, today we talk a lot about ducks in Sarlat.
07:12However, the first animal in this region is the goat, since we have had one since the Middle Ages.
07:17And in the past, the geese kept the farms and not the dogs.
07:20It was really the geese that kept the farms, because it's very mean.
07:36And the zoo is incredible, because it's little, but it's big.
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