Bergerac, main city of Périgord Pourpre, is situated on the particular river bank within the vast plain of the Dordogne. Once a prospering harbour for the actual wine trade, it is still the principle market center for the surrounding maize, vine and also tobacco farms. Devastated in the Wars of Religion, when most of its Protestant inhabitants fled abroad, Bergerac is right now basically a modern town with some interesting and appealing reminders of history.
Bergerac features its vacationers something all year round many thanks to its museums also to its properly renewed and also working old city, whose counters evoke to flawlessness the surroundings and adornment of the XIVth, XVth and XVIth centuries, with a multitude of half-timbered houses designed with 'bricou'. Turning among the corners, you'll be 'nose to nose' with... Cyrano whose sculpture recalls proudly just how much the actual fame of the city rests with this particular well-known character. The actual Festival of Theatre, each summer, couldn't do rather than keep his name.
The Museum of Tobacco presents its distinctive collection of objects from all sources, being financed by the usage of tobacco, and also examines the sociological as well as other facets of this phenomenon by reviewing the origin until today. People who are usually interested can also go to the Institute of Tobacco of SEITA, which is globally recognised for the quality of its research.
The Museum of Wine and Shipping located at the heart of the old city presents all the traditions of the trade by river which made Bergerac one of the very first 'ports gabariers' in the country, handling very large tonnages 'till the end of the last century.
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