Castelnaud Castle, Dordogne

Advantages: Great value for money
Disadvantages: None really

The Chateau de Castelnaud is located in the small town of Castelnaud and rises up above the tight cobbled streets to look over the slowly meandering River Dordogne and a beautiful lush green landscape stretching as far as the eye can see off to the distant hills of the Dordogne region of France. Earlier in the week we had viewed it while canoeing down the Dordogne and decided that it was definitely worth a visit. We were based in Sarlat and so it ...
...get there although the last couple of kilometres certainly make you glad of power steering as you negotiate the steep and twisting roads leading to the chateau entrance, much kudos to those hardy souls who were either cycling or walking to it, I would not have wanted to swap places with them. The chateau (we would call it a castle) is open all year round although the opening times do vary dependant upon the time of year, during the peak summer months ... Read review