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Arcachon: ( 2 to 3 hrs.)

Beautiful long sandy beaches and the highest sand dunes anywhere in europe rising to over 100metres above sea level.

Monpazier: (1 hr.)

The bastide town of Monpazier is a National Heritage

Site and, as well as being the best preserved bastide

town in the Dordogne, it is considered the most

typical example of a bastide town in the entire

South West of France.

Monpazier was founded in 1284 by King Edward 1 of

England with the help of Pierre de Gontaut, Lord of Biron,

and it was only during the reign of King Charles V of France

(1366-1380) that the bastide became definitely French.

Despite the ravages of time and wars (the Hundred Years War and the Wars of Religion) Monpazier has remained remarkably unchanged during it's seven hundred year long existence.

One of the prettiest and best preserved bastide towns in the Southwest of

France, 45kms S/E of Bergerac, this jewel

is well worth a visit.

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