Aubeterre-sur-Dronne

Description

Red-tiled roofs, steep cobbled streets and a typically French town square lined with linden trees.

 

Aubeterre is a lovely village to wander about in, especially as many of the streets are filled with artisans making and selling pottery and other crafts. At the heart of the town is Place Trarieux, an attractive, tree-lined square that’s the perfect place to stop and watch the world bustle by. It’s named after Ludovic Trarieux, the founder of the League of Human Rights who was born here.

 

The village’s most amazing site is the monolithic church which was carved out of cliff face by monks back in the 12th century. Twenty-seven metres high, the église monolithe is said to have taken 100 years to complete

 

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Photo 1 by michael clarke stuff / CC BY 2.0 image cropped; Photo 2 and Photo 4 by Stephane Mignon / CC BY 2.0 images cropped; Photo 3 by patrick janicek / CC BY 2.0 image cropped; Photo 5 by kristobalite / CC BY 2.0 image cropped

Address

Aubeterre-sur-Dronne

Categories
  • Charente
  • Towns
Tags
  • Architecture