Beaumont du Périgord, first English royal bastide, located south-east of Bergerac was founded in 1272 by Lucas de Thanay, seneschal in Guyenne of King Edward 1st of England. The site was chosen by the priory of Saint-Avit-Sénieur, the abbot of Cadouin and the lord of Biron who concluded a trimming contract. While it was one of the most important bastide towns of Périgord in the Middle Ages, Beaumont has unfortunately suffered the ravages of time. Of its fortifications with 16 gates, only one has been preserved. It is the Porte de Luziers, classified as a Historic Monument, through which one enters the town today.
– Marie-Dominique PRIVE
Beaumont du Périgord is located slightly uphill and it is certainly for this reason that there are more than 140 wells which supplied the population in medieval times. One of its wells is inside the fortified church.
– Marie’ Dominique PRIVATE
? Listen to Bernard Beslin, retired engineer passionate about this bastide