Welcome to the country of salviac

This charming village, chief town of canton, extend in a fresh valley with the confluence from the brooks from Easter and Ourajou. You are here on one of the stages of the path towards St Jacques de Compostelle (GR652) coming from Rocamadour. Salviac is happy to welcome you and to present to you: ITS INHERITANCE:

• Church St Jacques the Majeur, 13th century M.H. Guillaume de Gourdon and its heir Aymeric de Malemort, seneshal of King de France, lord of Salviac are probably at the origin of its construction between 1240 and 1260. The monument is with the hinge between two styles, the Languedocien novel and the Gothic of the South of which its massive pace with all the characteristics. Roof made up of roofing stones (stone slabs), typical cover of Quercy-Périgord. Inside, stained glasses of XVIème S., retable of XVIIth century.
• Lacoste Castle known as “of Templiers” with a tower Rebirth (deprived, does not visit itself).
• Notre-Dame Vault of Olm of XVth.
• Fountain of XVIth.
• In the neighbourhoods: Romance church of Luziers, beautiful houses quercynoises hones some, gariottes (shelters of shepherds), dolmen, mills, baker's ovens.

ITS ANIMATIONS AND LEISURES:

• Swimming pool, tennis, fishing, sports ground, paths of walks and hiking and equestrian marked out (in particular the GR652: way of St Jacques de Compostelle - route of Rocamadour-Gourdon it Romieu).
• Great votive festival of St Jacques (last Sunday of July), concerts, markets.

The modern road avoids the borough, which benefitted formerly from cross from very attended ways. In the center, with the site of the old church and cemetery, the large foirail arranged in 1860 knows a regular animation lasting the summer.

Well built out of turret in 1864 with height of the bridge crossing the brook in direction of Gourdon.

IN THE NEIGHBOURHOODS:

• Water level (fishing) to the hollow of the valley of Palazat.
• Hillside has, the old den of Vertillac (manor now become rooms of hosts) unnecessarily directs the drain-holes of its truncated round tower; at 18th century. the owners were the notable cadurcians Issala, lords of Dégagnac until the Revolution.
• Several houses of farm framed of pigeon-turrets.
• “Castle of Lantis”: mentioned for the first time in 1670, partly of 17th century. (in the course of restoration). Square dovecote downwards.
• Hamlet of “Lantis”: central cross with the site of a destroyed priory, which the church of Dégagnac was annexed.

Beyond, towards the valley of Céou, many paths marked out among the oaks caussenards.

In the middle of varied landscapes, composed of slopes limestones and forests, the strengthened borough is attested in 1460, including the barri (district) of “Lalbespit” behind ditch, walls and doors.

Here, the inhabitants have a charter of the habits since at least 1368.

The mention of a barri “Lalbespit” in 1306 suggests the existence of a first enclosure under the protection brought closer to the feudal castle. The seigniory appears under the suzerainty of the powerful family of Gorudon as of 10th century.

From 1528, the stronghold passes to the branch of the Barn-Gourdon.

Today, the village is proud to present to you:

ITS INHERITANCE:

• Castle of the XVII/XVIIIth. whose frontages, roofs, room known as “of the Guards” and the principal staircase are registered with the inventory of the historic buildings (deprived, does not visit).

• Romance church St Quirin in the borough and church of St Martin (XIInd.) surrounded by greenery in a laughing and isolated valley.

ITS LEISURES:

• Swimming pool, tennis, fishing, paths of marked out walk and excursion, path of interpretation in the Significant Natural space (ENS) of the Moors of Frau.

Sat on a hillock dominating the few houses of the village, the Saine-Madeleine church carries the disconcerting traces of multiple recoveries, come to improve it without deteriorating the architecture of Romance origin: wall-belfry, apse in half dome.

At its sides, large middle-class residence with the site of an old castle of the baron of Junies, sold and cut up after 1789 by conventional Taillefer; the single vestige is a window with crossed mullions in re-employment in a wall of the school…

IN THE NEIGHBOURHOODS:

• In North:

In the crossroads after the cemetery, small laundrette and fountain (remade).

The Castle: site of another destroyed possession of the lord of Junies, evoked by two turns and of old commun runs.

In Northern limit of the commune, Vitarelles: hamlet located on a very old lane between Gourdon and the Wearing of Dome, probably of Gallo-Roman origin.

• On the edge of Céou:

Ruins of the New Abbey: Gothic church drawing up itself on a calcareous spur, majestic vestiges of a monastery cistercian founded in XIIIrd century. by the powerful abbey of Obazine (Corrèze). (classified historic building together in 1991).

Some steps of the village of Lavercantière and valley of Ourajou, the village is organized around a vast communal lake: lake feeding trough where the herds made halt morning and evening.

The origin of the settlement undoubtedly goes back to the foundation of a small priory Benedictine which dealt with clearing the territory.

ITS INHERITANCE:

• Church Saint Pierre: small compact building with Romance apse (12th century.). In the Southern vault, together of splendid murals of 15th century.

With not missing:

• representations of the scenes of the life of Christ; Annunciation, Kiss of Judas, Scourging, Crucifixion, Setting with the Tomb.

• House on floor, raised the pigeon one
• Below the village, small covered laundrette.

LEISURES:

• Fish, marked out pedestrian paths, traditional meal the “Boiled chicken” of July 14.

Between Causse and Bouriane, Thédirac stretches its foothills in a green campaign strewn with shaded underwoods.

Posted on full a pech circular whose water joins the basin of the Dordogne, the village was born in contact with first small extremely, which was possession of the barons de Luzech with Maussac, Gindou and Salvezou. Baronnie de Thédirac was detached from Baronnie de Luzech in 1595. The castle raised at the 15th century, probably altered with 17th, was burnt in 1796 by the inhabitant, taken fury against the profiteur who had acquired it with the Revolution. The current home, with its elegant polygonal tower of staircase, seems to turn the back on imposing the ``hotel of ville' 'set up in the years 1910.

A little low, the Saint-Roch church owes its width with the Gothic restoration of the 14 and 15èmes century: Romance apse strengthened in height by a room-refuge, bell-tower turn in frontage gate profiled with bases carved with the repercussions of the drip, side chapel. Inside beautiful furniture of 17th S.: cupboard Louis XIII and pulpit to be preached; retable of the current Master: in the center painting on fabric of the Crucifixion, framed by the statues of saint Antoine and holy Roch, in an architecture of grooved pilasters.

Village of ThédiracMaison with opening of graver close to the church. Rue du Cimetery: door frame worked of the old residence of the family Grangié (Eugene Grangié, poet and promoter of tourism lotois in the years 1930, buried with the cemetery; the family also had with the surroundings the castle of the Raw wool, nonvisible).

Dovecote isolated in a garden. In edge of the village in the East, restored house, with boletus and circular pigeon turn with randière