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July 27, 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.
Church Saint-Front until 1669, of the name of an evangelist of the area in IIIe century, then cathedral.

Exterior
Interior

The three monumental glosses which light the cathedral were used to illuminate Notre-Dame de Paris at the time of the marriage as Napoleon III on January 29, 1853.

At the XIXe century, architecture took as a starting point the Byzantine architecture. From 1852 to 1895, the Saint-Front cathedral 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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