Périgueux (in Occitan Periguers or Peireguers ) is a average city French, prefecture of the the Dordogne, one of the five departments which form the area Aquitaine. The river Isle crosses the city of is in west.

Its inhabitants is called Périgourdins or Pétrocoriens.

Currency

Its currency is “Civum Fides Fortido Mea” (“the fidelity of my citizens makes my force”). The Blason of the city consists of three crenelated towers of which that central is surmounted by a Fleur of lily ( On sky of mouths and sinople ground, with the money castle of three notched towers, the surmounted power station of a gold lily).

History

Périgueux is born in 1240 from the union from two rival boroughs established to a few hundreds from meters one from the other: the City (the Gallo-Roman Vésone), city of the bishop and the count of Périgord and the middle-class city of Puy-Saint-Face.

Its name comes from the Gallic tribe which lived the places at the time of Vésone: the Pétrocorii.

In 1669, the évêché passes from the Saint-Etienne ex-cathedral located in the district of the City at the cathedral Saint-Face.

In 1813, Périgueux increases with the fusion of the old commune of Saint Martin's day.

In 1857, Périgueux sees the arrival of the railroad coming from Coutras and with him the installation from the repair shops from the engines and the cars from the Compagnie from Paris-Orleans (PO), activity which survives still nowadays in the district of Toulon.

Transport

Périgueux is connected to Bordeaux and Clermont-Ferrand by the highway A89. Only highway in France being integrated perfectly into the relief and the landscape.

By its railway station, Périgueux is connected by connections FOR THE THIRD TIME to Bordeaux, Limoges, Brive, Agen and by train broad outlines with Paris, Lyon and Clermont-Ferrand by the Ventadour

The city laid out until March 2005 of an air link towards Paris at the beginning of Bassillac (15 km of Périgueux): airport of Bassillac-Périgueux.

Economy

Périgueux shelters in the district of Toulon of the repair shops of the SNCF (Industrial plant of Périgord) which employ nearly 600 people. The cars “Coral” and “Téoz” are renovated there as well as the trains FOR THE THIRD TIME.

Since 1970, Périgueux also accommodates in the industrial park of Boulazac to the periphery of the city the Imprimerie of the postage stamps and values fiduciary (ITVF) from which totality comes from the stamps emitted in France (4 billion stamps per annum). It employs 700 people.

Périgueux is the seat of the Chamber of commerce and industry of the Dordogne. It manages the Aéroport Périgueux-Bassillac and that of Bergerac-Roumanière, the Exhibition site of Périgord. It manages also the School of Savignac, the GEP, CFA, and the LEP.

Administration

Prefect of the Dordogne: Jean-François Tallec (since February 2007).

French health insurance system of Health insurance: Mr. Christian Groppo, Director.

Higher education: - University Site of Périgueux (Grenadière) The site of Périgueux gathers delocalized formations of the Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV as well as the IUFM. The various establishments are:

Demography

(1) 6.201 with the old commune of Saint Martin's day which will amalgamate in 1813

Sources: INSEE, Annual inquiries of census 2004 to 2006 RP99 - Principal exploitations

Famous characters

Events

  • national Festival of the Slipway
  • International fair of the greedy book * International festival of the MIME Mimos * MNOPérigueux festival of the musics of the Orleans News * Festival of Sinfonia Baroque music * Fair Exposure of Périgueux: Various animations and commercial stands

Tourist monuments and places

Périgueux is classified station of tourism, town of art and history and counts important a Secteur safeguarded.

  • Castle Barrier, 12th century, with Périgueux, classified

  • the cathedral Saint-Face, registered with the Inheritance of Humanity, as a stage of the way of St-Jacques-to-Compostelle, original Cathedral with Cupola S restored by Paul Abadie at the XIXe century, which was inspired some for construction by the Sacré-coeur in Paris. Its Chemin of cross paints around 1850 by Jacques-Emile Lafon was restored in 2002

  • the downtown area means-âgeux, with the street Limogeanne

  • the house of the Consuls, dating from the Middle Ages

  • the museum of art and archeology of Périgord
  • the military museum of Périgord
  • the museum-workshop of trompe-l'oeil

  • prefecture of XIXe: frontage of the Second Empire, the living rooms are true works of art inspired by the castles of Versailles, Fontainebleau and Louvre

  • the Romance church Saint-Etienne: First Cathedral of Périgueux in the middle of the City.

Vestiges of the Gallo-Roman city Vésone/Vesunna

  • the museum of Vesunna, built on the vestiges of the domus of the Bouquets (Gallo-Roman villa) by the architect Jean Nouvel
  • the garden of the Arenas with the ruins of the Roman Amphitheater
  • the tower of Vésone, vestige of a temple dedicated to the guardian goddess of the city

Twinnings

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