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July 26, 2008
Périgueux 240322 24000
Dordogne Aquitaine
45.185 0.721 90 m

Cathedral Saint-Front of XIIe century, and its five cupolas of Byzantine style, restored with the XIXe century, its bell-tower of XIIe century. (4 images).
Church Saint-Front until 1669, of the name of an evangelist of the area in IIIe century, then cathedral.

One sight. (4 images).
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At the XIXe century, architecture took as a starting point the Byzantine architecture. From 1852 to 1895, the cathedral Saint-Front is restored by, inter alia architects, Paul Abadie, (student of Viollet-le-Duc), architect also of the basilica of the Sacré-Coeur in Paris. Only the bell-tower of XIIe century is preserved.

The cathedral is registered since 1998 with the World heritage of Humanity within the framework of the ways of St-Jacques-of-Compostelle.

Périgueux is a french commune, located in the department of the Dordogne of the Aquitaine region, populated of 30193 Pétrocoriens, distributed on 10 km², that is to say 2960 hab./km².

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