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Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ miʃɛl də mɔ̃tɛɲ]; Occitan: Sent Miquèu de Montanha) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. The Château de Montaigne, where philosopher Michel de Montaigne lived in the 16th century, is situated in the commune.
It lies in the southeastern part of the Dordogne department, 7 km north of the river Dordogne. Sarlat railway station offers train services to Bergerac , Bordeaux and Périgueux . The commune is also served by Brive Vallée de la Dordogne airport (50 km), Bergerac Roumanière airport (70 km) and two bus lines.
Today the restored castle, a private property open to the public, houses a museum of medieval warfare, featuring reconstructions of siege engines, mangonneaux, and trebuchets. The castle is listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture .
The following is a list of the 503 communes of the Dordogne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Communauté d'agglomération Bergeracoise; Communauté d'agglomération Le Grand Périgueux; Communauté de communes des Bastides Dordogne-Périgord [de; fr; oc]
The village lies in the fertile valley of the Dordogne under the arid plateau locally named 'le Causse'. Its landmarks include a medieval priory , combining an 11th-century church and cloister, and a 16th-century castle, in which the author of The Adventures of Telemachus , François Fénelon , lived from 1681 to 1685.
Terrasson-Lavilledieu (French pronunciation: [tɛʁasɔ̃ lavildjø]; Occitan: Terrasson e La Vila Dieu, before 1997: Terrasson-la-Villedieu) [3] is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. The commune was created in 1963 by the merger of the former communes Terrasson and Lavilledieu. [4]
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