Hotels in Beaumont-du-Périgord

Beaumont-du-Périgord is a thirteenth-century bastide town built by the English during the Hundred Years' War, and it still shows: a grid-plan layout, a fortified Gothic church designed to double as a keep, and stone arcades around the central square. It sits in the Périgord Pourpre, the wine-and-walnut country south of the Dordogne valley, and makes a reasonable base for exploring nearby bastide villages and the river towns without the crowds or prices of Sarlat.

Be honest: with a population under 1,300 there isn't much nightlife or dining choice, and this is a place for market mornings and quiet evenings rather than entertainment. It's also a fair drive from any train station, so you'll want a car. Stay right in the old bastide centre near the square, so you can walk to the market and the church and use the car only for day trips.