Les Farges • Dordogne

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Les Farges

Les Farges invite to the discovery of vast horizons rustic and meditation on the ruins of a Roman church.
The Municipality of Farges spread on plates of Jurassic and Cretaceous limestone with altitudes ranging from 200 to 260 m. It is a stronghold overlooking a hundred feet above the valley Vézère east and the north of Cern.

To the east of the D46, dominated by Jurassic limestone very hard in the form of gray hills with juniper, oak small ...

It is a vast area almost deserted, visited by hunters and appreciated by hikers.
To the west of the D46, are needed for different rocks: Cretaceous limestones sometimes hard sometimes soft were etched by erosion ridges, buttes, bluffs and valleys ... dry.

Alternating fields of grain, small vineyards and woods, especially when the mushrooms are covered with calcareous sand and gravel from acids once partly of Limousin.

South of the town, on the big hill Cheylard army of sandy limestone, stand the remains of the church of the former parish of Cheylard eighteenth century. A small country road leads to public ruin: Romanesque nave, tower-wall, the eleventh century choir was vaulted to a cradle. One can also see a few graves of the old medieval cemetery.