More than one hundred torchbearers took it in turns to carry the Olympic Torch through the department, including sporting personalities and members of the general public. Thomas Chinours, French youth shooting champion, lit the Olympic Cauldron at the beginning of the evening in front of a large crowd. Olympic Membership - Free Live Stream Sports & Original Series - join now! 🥇 Olympic Torch Relay | Stage 13 - Dordogne | Olympic Games Paris 2024Watch the highlights of the 13th stage of the Olympic Torch Relay for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 that took place in Dordogne A visit to this department is guaranteed to awaken all the senses in an enchanting landscape with its narrow streets with a medieval atmosphere and its half-timbered houses overlooked the Dronne River from this atypical 12th century fortified town This circuit is classed as one of the ten most beautiful trails in the Périgord area the Olympic Torch headed to Sarlat-la-Canéda as well as the ramparts dating back to the Middle Ages in Nontron which boasts a tradition of cutlery making The Olympic Torch illuminated the reconstitution of the famous prehistoric site at Montignac-Lascaux the capital of the Périgord and a Gallo-Roman city renowned for its heritage boasting 53 buildings listed as protected historical monuments notably the Saint Front Romanesque cathedral built in the 12th century and listed as a UNESCO world heritage site which is part of the remains of a Gallo- Roman temple and the Périgord Museum of Art and Archaeology the first museum created in the Dordogne in the 19th century were also given pride of place on Wednesday 22nd May with the greatest number of podiums totalling 128 medals an essential venue in France’s historical heritage where the day’s collective relay took place making for an exceptional setting at the crossroads of these two worlds a young swordsman heavily involved in his club as a fencer and referee as well as devoted to passing on his passion carried the Olympic Torch alongside 23 other members of the French Fencing Federation who began this sport at a very young age at his grandfather’s club in Bergerac before setting up his own departmental club in 2012 a discipline which has received the backing of the French Fencing Federation a club member who has gained self-confidence thanks to taking part in fencing All the weapons used in the sport were represented whose aim is to stage choreographed fights presented in competition By carrying the Olympic Torch in Périgueux once again contributed to the brilliance of this discipline The two times team world champion was part of the first women’s epee team in 1987 in a discipline in which women had previously been prevented from participating a member of the association called “Vaincre la Mucoviscidose” (conquering cystic fibrosis) kicked off the stage in Dordogne this thirty- something has battled against this illness that mainly affects the lungs an association in support of children suffering from Cockayne’s syndrome it was the turn of Anne-Sophie Bobovnikoff which promotes the values of adapted sport under the motto ‘to each his or her own challenge’ Annie Rubellin had the honour of carrying the Olympic Torch in Lascaux She has been involved for many years as a volunteer with the Emmaüs charity that helps the underprivileged and is the chairwoman of the local branch in Brive Other personalities from the world of sport and athletes joined these everyday heroes a team foil Olympic champion at the Syndey Games and individual foil Olympic champion at the Athens Games the former professional cyclist with 130 titles and victories a former member of the French women’s rugby union team and current selector and coach of the women’s national team an international middle- and long-distance runner Thomas Chinours lit the Olympic Cauldron in Place Tourny in Périgueux who has recently joined the CREPS sports centre of excellence in Talence has set his sights on qualifying for the Los Angeles Olympic Games the Olympic Torch Relay will head to the Gironde department offering a wonderful opportunity to discover the attractions of this region world-renowned for its wine-growing treasures The Olympic Torch will set off from Saint-Émilion before heading for the racecourse in Le Bouscat The day will continue along a route between Mérignac and Pessac and then return to Libourne and the Plage des Dagueys beach Matías Dittus is to play in France. The 28-year-old has signed to play for Périgueux on a two-year-contract for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 seasons The move will see the Chilean tight head prop playing professional rugby abroad for the first time in his career He joins from Selknam in the Súper Liga Americana de Rugby (SLAR) His contract begins in July. Before he moves to France, however, Dittus will be playing for Chile against the USA in the RWC 2023 qualifiers. Chile defeated Russia in an away series in 2021 and also eliminated Canada from the RWC 2023 qualifiers Périgueux are presently competing for promotion. The club finished top of Pool 1 in the 2021-2022 Fédérale 1 season The club will face Tyrosse in home-and-away matches to determine who advances to the Quarter Finals Tyrosse won 18 and lost 8 matches during the regular season Dittus is a product of Universidad Católica in Santiago. An excellent ball-carrier and worker in the scrum, Dittus weighs 128kg and stands 1.82m tall. He has 15 caps for Chile Tags Fédérale 1 Rugby World Cup Qualification Súper Liga Americana de Rugby Peñarol came out 22-17 winners over Selkman in Santiago del Chile on Saturday The Sunday TimesYou’ll want to settle down for a long lunch with Périgueux Perched prettily on a bend of the River Isle it is the embodiment of all our French-living fantasies the city has weekend markets that radiate the pleasure of living well and in summer the streets are strung with fluorescent bunting like giant confetti The surrounding chateau-filled countryside is a delight to drive and you will seriously weigh up buying that pale-blue-shuttered house for sale The capital of the Dordogne doesn’t have an airport (sorry) so you have to hire a car from the nearest (by a whisker) and you travel through the attractive Parc Naturel Régional Périgord Limousin tree-lined lay-bys set up with picnic benches AfternoonYou’ve arrived in time for lunch (très bien) a brasserie that opened last year and is right next to the 12th-century St-Front Cathedral; it has a large There’s a seasonal daily lunch menu for £14 and rounded off with mousse au chocolat (13 Rue Denfert Rochereau; 00 33 9 80 74 10 32) The Vesunna TowerGETTYMarvel at the broken Vesunna Tower — the remains of a Gallo-Roman temple in the garden — on your way out and walk back through town via the Jardin des Arènes children splash in the fountain on toasty afternoons EveningWander down the intriguingly narrow Rue Limogeanne and pause at the nearby Café de la Place, on Place du Marché au Bois, for an aperitif alongside leather-clad bikers and Lycra-clad cyclists (Campari £3, Stella £2; cafedelaplace24.fr) have an al fresco pizza at Les Coupoles Bistrot Italien Trattoria (pizzas from £13; 7 Rue de la Clarté) Visit the market at Halle du CodercALAMYAfternoonIf it’s hot So hop in the car and drive south to Limeuil where you can test your mettle against the Dordogne which will sweep you along lazy-river style with a gorgeous view of the village on the opposite side EveningYou’ve booked dinner back in Périgueux, at La Péniche, a Chelsea houseboat-style restaurant on the river, with views of the cathedral glowing pleasingly above. The menu is seasonal and traditional, with an emphasis on rich, meaty dishes. If you’re eating outside, douse yourself in mosquito repellent (three courses £29; lapenicherestaurant.fr) a timber-framed lookout house for the toll bridge sits bizarrely balanced on the ramparts of the medieval city with woodland shading the path — until you get to a platform that you crank manually to spirit you across the river Getting thereRyanair has return flights to Limoges from £41 (ryanair.com) Where to stayLes Suites du Théâtre, in the centre of Périgueux, has chic, airy apartments set in a 1930s building (from £108 a night; appart-hotel-perigueux.suitesdutheatre.com) This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of 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in the 18th arrondissement "crack is in fashion," as one of the suspects in a cocaine trafficking operation said recently when he was summoned to appear before the Périgueux magistrates' court in early February there are still no "[crack] rocks in circulation like we see in Paris," explained Solène Belaouar But that does not prevent the expansion of crack trafficking Because they can't find ready-to-use drugs consumers in Périgueux console themselves with "cocaine base," a kind of "home-made" crack cooked by consumers themselves and smoked on the spot The trend is on the rise in Périgueux and in other similar-sized towns or Lorient in the Morbihan area of Brittany a dash of ammonia or baking soda and a camping stove: Crack can be made with minimal equipment and smoked with water pipes that can be obtained from Centres d’Accueil et d’Accompagnement à la Réduction des Risques pour Usagers de Drogue (CAARUD Reception and Help Centers for the Reduction of Risks for Drug Users) in Périgueux By "risk reduction," it means preventing drug users from catching Hepatitis B or C several dozen people line up next to the CAARUD truck in the parking lot of the administrative center of Périgueux to buy "basic kits," consisting of a clean pipe two personal mouthpieces and a ready-to-use filter "We keep track of the number of kits distributed to each person," explained Chloé Ducret a specialist educator at the Périgord branch of the Research Committee for Information on Drugs (CEID) "Some take a kit for themselves; others take them for others We can distribute about 50 kits per evening." You have 69.57% of this article left to read Lecture du Monde en cours sur un autre appareil Vous pouvez lire Le Monde sur un seul appareil à la fois Ce message s’affichera sur l’autre appareil Parce qu’une autre personne (ou vous) est en train de lire Le Monde avec ce compte sur un autre appareil Vous ne pouvez lire Le Monde que sur un seul appareil à la fois (ordinateur En cliquant sur « Continuer à lire ici » et en vous assurant que vous êtes la seule personne à consulter Le Monde avec ce compte Que se passera-t-il si vous continuez à lire ici Ce dernier restera connecté avec ce compte Vous pouvez vous connecter avec votre compte sur autant d’appareils que vous le souhaitez mais en les utilisant à des moments différents Nous vous conseillons de modifier votre mot de passe Votre abonnement n’autorise pas la lecture de cet article merci de contacter notre service commercial wine and idyllic lifestyle of this region’s villages have always appealed to Brits – and with Brexit looming they’re settling in record numbers – but that has not dimmed its thoroughly French allure Sarlat-la-Canéda is the perfect base for exploring the grandiose hilltop châteaux that look down on the Dordogne river and the Unesco-listed prehistoric sites along the Vézère valley. Its narrow streets are lined with lavish sandstone mansions, perfectly preserved since the middle ages and Renaissance. Don’t miss taking a ride up the 14th-century bell tower, where renowned architect and Sarlat local Jean Nouvel has designed a panoramic glass lift offering 360-degree views. a towering mass of ruins above ancient cave dwellings including an extravagant perfumed rose garden inhabited 55,000 years ago by Neanderthals which is frankly just as impressive a recreation of the original caves Read moreSarlat is surrounded by great-value traditional fermes auberges (farm inns). At La Table du Chaffour Nicole and Jean-Marie Verlhiac grow vegetables and use only their own produce for the hearty three-course €15 menu tradition or the six-dish €29 menu gastronomique In the hills above Château Montfort is the no-frills Pech de Malet hotel whose sunny terrace has awe-inspiring vistas over the Dordogne valley accompanied by a €6.80 plate of irresistible pommes sarladaises thinly sliced potatoes sautéed with garlic Bistro des GlycinesRestaurants around the caves of Les Eyzies tend to be aimed mostly at tourists, but just outside the village, talented chef Pascal Lombard has opened the casual Bistrot Les Glycines Pascal’s young team prepare a €17 three-course lunch menu with creative dishes such as salmon rillettes topped with edible flowers and root vegetables A tour of Lascaux takes around half a day, and rather than looking for food in the nearby villager of Montigny, visitors can choose between the brasserie, snacking and cafe options at the centre’s excellent Cafe Lascaux with prices ranging from a €9 salad to the €15.90 set lunch Read moreTo splash out for a night in a romantic setting, two addresses stand out: the monumental 13th-century Château de Puymartin (doubles from €150 B&B) has two stately rooms with antique furniture, while the more ornate Château de Monrecour (doubles from €120 room-only) has recently become a 10-room hotel with hot-air balloons taking off from the gardens from time to time On the road to Lascaux are two very different B&Bs: the chic Maison de Marquay (doubles from €90 B&B) in the middle of a tiny village, where owner Gérard Lerchundi prepares a gourmet €33 dinner each night; and the rustic Pech Mortier (€55 B&B) in the countryside by Marcillac-Saint-Quentin discovering little-known reds such as Pécharmant and the luscious Monbazillac dessert wine Enoy your picnic in the gardens of the Renaissance Château de Monbazillac but skip its touristy tasting sessions and head instead to the equally imposing Château de Bélingard to try its fruity €5.90 Bergerac Blanc You may well bump into the estate’s garrulous owner who will tell you how wine has been made here since the days of the Celts plus a spoonful of caviar and a glass of bubbly Périgueux is the capital of the Dordogne and is dominated by the swirling domes and turrets of its white Saint Front cathedral the present building looks similar to the Sacre-Coeur in Paris – not surprising because it was restyled in the 19th century by the same architect Sur le pont … the Barris Bridge and Saint Front cathedral Photograph: AlamyThe same distinctive white stone is even more conspicuous in another of the Dordogne’s jewels almost entirely encircled by a meander of the Dronne river Brantôme’s massive Benedictine abbey was founded in AD769 by the emperor Charlemagne and behind it are some much older troglodyte caves Hire a kayak (€10) or paddleboard (€12) (brantomecanoe.com) for a couple of hours to do a lazy tour of the city or take the whole day and paddle seven kilometres upriver to Bourdeilles, where a fortified chateau (€8.70) houses an enormous collection of antique furniture and tapestries which might be sea bream with sun-dried tomatoes or date-encrusted roast lamb In Monbazillac, the welcoming Maison Vari is owned by a local vigneron (wine maker) Château Vari wines can be tasted for free at the bar or there are tables in the garden of this friendly cafe-wine bar for indulging in generous €10 plates of charcuterie and local cheeses with a chilled bottle of organic €12 Bergerac blanc or rosé In Périgueux, head straight for the town’s historic covered market on Place du Coderc. It was already a foodie paradise but now it boasts the Bistrot de la Halle a minuscule diner where a glass of wine is the perfect accompaniment to freshly shucked oysters or a hamburger au foie gras Brantôme caters for all budgets, from the Michelin-starred Moulin de l’Abbaye, to the cheap-and-cheerful Co’Thé-Café sit out on the river bank at Comme à la Maison (13 quai Bertin where owner Sarah Nicolas serves a €16 three-course lunch with seasonal make guests feel they’re part of the family and run cellar tours with tastings of their wines – and there’s a family swimming pool surrounded by vines Rather than looking for a place to stay in busy Périgueux, carry on to Brantôme, where Sandrine Laby has a cosy four-room B&B, Au Nid des Thés (€90 B&B) where she serves home-baked cakes and a choice of 30 teas Breakfast at Au Nid des ThésTake the lovely 10km drive south-west along the Dronne to medieval Bourdeilles, crossing an ancient stone bridge to enter the village. Here, the venerable Hostellerie les Griffons (doubles from €95 this 16th-century auberge has 10 rustic-beamed rooms For a more outdoorsy experience, carry on to the north of the Dordogne, where Parenthèses Imaginaires (cabins sleeping 2 minimum two nights) is a sprawling campsite with a lake and thick forest Dynamic young owner Francoise has created an eco-glamping resort with romantic lakeside wooden chalets and areas for tents and vehicles (pitches from €20 for two nights) Ryanair flies to Bergerac from Liverpool, Stansted and East Midlands; Flybe flies from Birmingham, Southampton, Exeter and Edinburgh. Bordeaux is 90 minutes from Bergerac by car. Travelling by train (from London to Bordeaux, changing in Paris) costs from around £170 return on Eurostar Bergerac is 530 miles from Calais and 360 miles from Caen The average high temperature in Bergerac ranges from 20C to 28C between May and October A hidden motor was discovered in the bicycle of a competitor at an amateur race in France on Sunday according to Le Telegramme The motor was discovered in a joint operation between the Périgueux prosecutor’s office the French Cycling Federation (FFC) and the French Anti-Doping Agency at a in the department of Dordogne in the south west of France “We were advised by a French Anti-Doping Agency official of a suspicion of cheating by means of an electrical system, probably a small engine,” explained Périgueux public prosecutor Jean- François Mailhes to Le Telegramme had his bike inspected upon arrival to the event at which point a hidden motor was discovered The prosecutor explained that Sunday afternoon the rider was interviewed by police who were trying to determine how much the cyclist benefited from cheating and whether it helped further the riders sporting career According to the French cycling federation this is the first time a hidden motor has been discovered in France Other cases of technological fraud have been discovered elsewhere Belgian under-23 rider Femke Van den Driessche was suspended six years by the UCI for using a hidden motor at the 2016 cyclocross world championships. Another recorded instance of a hidden motor being discovered in a bike took place in Italy earlier this year when a 53-year-old amateur was discovered to have used a motor in an amateur race Frenchman David Lappartient vowed during his election campaign that he would further crack down on technological fraud He ousted Brian Cookson at the 2017 road world championships Get the digital edition of Canadian Cycling Magazine Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Jaguar has extended its support as an Innovation Partner to Team Sky by designing engineering and building a bespoke F-TYPE Coupé high performance support vehicle for the team to use during Stage 20 of the race Stage 20 of the 2014 Tour de France will see riders traverse from Bergerac to Périgueux "its attractions probably won't hold your interest more than a day" most of this small town's population of 35,000 could squeeze into the ample ruins of its first-century Roman amphitheatre The English liked Périgueux so much that they occupied it for the best part of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453); they come in droves still to holiday here and to snap up charming houses covering the extensive ruins standing alongside a fine Roman tower with the architectural equivalent of a parasol: a broad lightweight roof with the deepest of eaves to keep the summer sun at bay shaded by cypress trees and supported by the slimmest of steel columns The Roman villa appears to undulate under Nouvel's slimline walls and through the course of the filigree structure protecting it and then down and through the largely unmolested Roman ruins along refined Models of the Roman rooms in handsome timber and glass cases explain how these once looked and how they were used The experience is utterly unpatronising and the Roman house is allowed the flat roof is decorated with a full-scale architectural plan of the house so that visitors can make perfect sense of the villa's layout there is little else new here apart from a small entrance lobby shop and fine views out through the trees to the town beyond a little 18th-century galleried house that was once the haunt of the early 19th-century archaeologist who first worked on systematic excavations of Roman Périgueux has been restored by Nouvel working with Philippe Oudin The sheer lightness of Nouvel's structure allows the ancient house to breathe Built around a garden courtyard bordered by a peristyle colonnade centrally heated (by hypocausts) and boasted generous Surviving frescos include a scene depicting gladiators and another swimming with fish and other colourful sea creatures What you see appears to be so effortless that it is easy to be unaware of the long years of work that have gone into the recovery of this major Roman city house since the project was first proposed in 1990 A competition for the design was held in 1993 The architect last built here in 1974; his Ecole Maternelle Jean Eyraud is a far cry from the designs he has become world famous for the Gallo-Roman museum represents a very small project he is busy at work on a massive office tower on the Diagonal in Barcelona very much like Norman Foster's nearly completed Swiss-Re tower in the City of London although called on more and more to design commercial palaces Nouvel has often been at his best - and his best is very good indeed - working on more subtle cultural projects It is in these that he has developed his trademark lightness of touch making a magnificent play of light on sometimes transparent and otherwise translucent walls adopted in part from his study of historic Arab designs of offering layer after refined layer of gossamer-thin walls so that the transition from the outside of a building to its interior is as far as is possible in a highly serviced modern building like passing through veils rather than thumping layers of brick the graceful Institut du Monde Arabe (1988) Nouvel's remodelling and extension of the city's opera house showed how deftly he could work with historic buildings The voluptuous steel and glass barrel vault he imposed on the 19th-century music venue appears to complete what was otherwise an incomplete looking building right beside the lake at Lucerne in Switzerland shows this master of translucency at his best The lapping water and parade of boats reflect from aluminium panels that flank three separate structures housed under one vast the building emerges slowly from its mountain backdrop becoming distinct only as you come in close Nouvel has elected not to dominate the shoreline; this is a graceful display of architectural good manners And a trick he has pulled off again in Périgueux The idea of encasing historic monuments in parasol structures is not new yet in Périgueux the concept has been refined to the point where although the new design is special in itself the building it serves is not overshadowed by the new architecture the point can be made that ruins are best left as just that as this is very rarely allowed in the developed world By following the red line we discover various sites bearing witness to the gallo-roman history of Périgueux Perhaps you have already noticed this intriguing red line in Périgueux It indicates a trail which takes us to the various gallo-roman sites of the town Although I pride myself on knowing my town relatively well until now I had never taken the time to explore these fascinating sites in depth These are sites that I have often heard mentioned because they are distinctive landmarks in Périgueux Who hasn’t heard of the Vesunna museum and the Vesunna temple the City church (l’église de la Cité) and the Amphitheatre garden (jardin des Arènes) ’ Sporting sun hat and sunglasses I set off on the trail in true tourist fashion The sun is already beating down and it’s only 11 am the principle is simple : You just need to find the red line and follow it from one end to the other to find out all about our petrocore ancestors I look for it at the starting point near the City church (église de la Cité) and soon spot it Unless you have your head in the clouds you can’t miss it before yielding its status to Saint-Front in the 17th century I continue on my way and follow the line to the Amphitheatre garden : a peaceful oasis combining archeaological interest with a chance to relax in beautiful surroundings not to mention the extremely welcome water misters I come across by chance After a refreshing pause and considerably revived Dating from the 12th century it was destroyed by fire in 1575 and has never been restored at the same time as discovering the area and the various constructions we also learn a number of historical facts thanks to the information panels along the way the Vesunna museum and the Vesunna temple await us The park where they are situated is charming a fitting setting for these two original buildings Under a glorious sky I take a few photographs of the temple and walking the red line has taken me an hour : I feel that it was time well spent The preservation of the gallo-roman heritage in the heart of the capital of Périgord is an important and interesting subject But don’t take my word for it : go and see for yourself Info : 05 53 53 00 92