Discover nontron

Topic	Walks
Departure	NONTRON (24)
Details	The town probably exists since 1100 years before our era and has been destroyed several times by invaders such as the Saracens in the 4th century and the Normans in the 9th century.

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Discover Nontron

Nontron has numerous attractive tourist sites:

The Gianello House and the italian cafe
The Castle of Bernardières, property of Antoine d'Authon although more famous under the name of Barberousse. He was a pirate and admiral of Turkish fleets
the Alfred-Agard square, La Cahue square, called today the Alfred-Agard square

Accommodation nearby

Hostellerie de l'Auberge de L'Etang Bleu

Vieux-mareuil
05 53 60 92 63

Le Saint Pierre

Saint-pierre-de-chignac
05 53 02 15 60

Ballad in the Romanesque art

Nontron has many religious sites. Come and discover them.

The Saint-Martial-de-Valette church and its unique sculpted gate.
The Petit Saint-Martin church, a small Romanesque church well restored open to devotees on Ascension Day.
The Champeaux church a partially Romanesque building.
The Saint-Robert Chapel.

Accommodation nearby

Hostellerie de l'Auberge de L'Etang Bleu

Vieux-mareuil
05 53 60 92 63

Le Saint Pierre

Saint-pierre-de-chignac
05 53 02 15 60

Discover the Art Gardens

This garden has species from the 5 continents such as the Libanese cedar, Chinese peonies, central America tomatoes. There are also Chinese bamboos, Mexican blue palmtree, a Brasilian butia capitata, small European palmtrees, and many other palm trees form Chili, Argentina, Uruguay and so on.