Monpazier, a bastide to discover

You are on vacation and you have chosen the Dordogne as your vacation spot. You have done well because Périgord is full of countless riches, nuggets to discover during your walks. In the purple Périgord, it is a must, a real nugget: the bastide Monpazier labeled “Most beautiful villages in France“. Monpazier invites you to stroll through its alleys and carreyrous. You enter the village through different doors, witness to a medieval past.

There is a slightly hidden door nicknamed “Gate of Paradise”. It would have been a passage for illegal immigrants entering the city.

Today, Monpazier is a perfectly preserved and restored model bastide. It is a paradise for craftsmen who have settled there and every year in the spring, a crafts market takes place on the Place des Angles. Frédéric Lemont, the editor-in-chief of the magazine Edition Périgord, has his favorite the stained glass artist, Emilie Castanier and his shop “the soul and the wings”