Siorac

SIORAC


The sandstones, the dolmens of Cayreleva and Bonarme, the covered alleys, the oppidum (ancient Roman city) buried by centuries of wild vegetation: they all testify of a distant past.

Englishmen built a fortress upon an ancient oppidum, at the top of the valley of Dordogne: they erected Castel-Réal.

In the City centre: the castle, renovated during the 18th century, is a wonderful and majestic house built upon the relics of a noble hideout sacked and burned during the Religious War.
The residence was property of the family Verrie from Siorac, Earl of Vivans.

On the Dordogne River, two bridges have been destroyed by some flooding, while the existing one has been built hundred years ago (1885).