Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When our children were 11 and 9, young enough to still be entirely inside the family circle but old enough to remember, we splurged on a “once in a lifetime ...

France’s Dordogne River weaves past castles and greenery in the heart of Southwest France. A once vital highway, travel France's Dordogne River via traditional boats through the green heart of ...

France’s Dordogne region has one of the longest histories in Europe, as well as some of the country’s most romantic landscapes. Archaeologists have found evidence of human habitation in the Dordogne ...

correctionAn earlier version of the map accompanying this story noted the location of the Saint-Cyprien in the Pyrenees-Orientales department. The map has been updated. When our children were 11 and 9 ...

The Dordogne département of southwest France is internationally renowned for more than medieval castles and foie gras cuisine. It is also laden with a generous smattering of pre-historic sites that ...

It is a sunny mid-spring Monday morning as I look out from the crenellated battlements of Château de Castelnaud. Beneath me, the Dordogne river, still full of the downpours of the last few weeks, ...

A reader once asked me if I were to bring a spry, 73-year-old grandmother to Europe, where would I go? My response: France’s Dordogne River Valley. I’d take her for a lazy canoe ride down the river, ...

The Dordogne is France in miniature, all charming chateaux and chocolate box villages stitched into a rich landscape of greens. To explore this beautiful region is to step back in time, passing ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Where In a hamlet 35 minutes’ drive north of Sarlat-la-Canéda. It’s a five-minute drive to the nearest train ...