Périgueux (French pronunciation: [peʁiɡø] ( listen)) (Occitan: Peireguers [pejɾeˈɣɥes ~ pejɾeˈɡœː] or Periguers [peɾiˈɣɥes ~ peɾiˈɡœː]) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in south-western France.
Périgueux is the prefecture of the department and the capital of the region. It is also the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese.
The name Périgueux comes from Petrocorii, a Latinization of Celtic words meaning "the four tribes" – the Gall...
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Périgueux (French pronunciation: [peʁiɡø] ( listen)) (Occitan: Peireguers [pejɾeˈɣɥes ~ pejɾeˈɡœː] or Periguers [peɾiˈɣɥes ~ peɾiˈɡœː]) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in south-western France.
Périgueux is the prefecture of the department and the capital of the region. It is also the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese.
The name Périgueux comes from Petrocorii, a Latinization of Celtic words meaning "the four tribes" – the Gallic people that held the area before the Roman conquest. Périgueux was their capital city.
During the Holocaust, many Jews from Alsace were evacuated to Périgueux.
The Isle flows through Périgueux.
There is an amphitheater, the remains of a temple of the Gallic goddess, "Vesunna", and a luxurious Roman villa, called the "Domus of Vesunna", built around a garden courtyard surrounded by a colonnaded perisink.
The cathedral of St Front was built after 1120 AD and restored in the 19th century.
The history of the church of St Front of Périgueux has...
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