La Roque Saint-Christophe is fully part of prehistory but it is difficult to evoke it without talking about the rest, without testifying to a very rich history also in the Gallo-Roman and medieval period.
We have a very beautiful Gallo-Roman occupation of the area. We are on the territory of an old large villa which was located at the time in Saint-Léon sur Vézère, at the level of the current Romanesque church. So the archaeologists who worked here found many remains of this occupation
This period marks the rise of trade and agriculture, wealth will grow and large villas will be built in the area.
And after ?
Afterwards, a lot of things happen on La Roque Saint-Christophe, since we are lucky to have a very beautiful medieval occupation of the site which will span the 1000 years of the Middle Ages and even until the end of the Renaissance
– La Roque-Saint-Christophe
– La Roque-Saint-Christophe
In 1588, in the midst of the war of religion, the site of La Roque Saint-Christophe was razed by order of the seneschal of Périgord because it was a Protestant refuge.
From 1588, there will be above all an anecdotal occupation of the foot of the cliff by peasants and a few farms during the centuries that will follow.
La Roque-Saint-Christophe
24620 Peyzac-le-Moustier
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