Activities, Sightseeing
Activities and sightseeing
Leisure activities in the holiday village
A wide range of leisure activities and entertainments are available on site:
- 2 swimming pools (14 x 6 m and 16 x 8 m, one heated), fenced in for additional safety, and 2 children’s paddling pools
- 1 covered and heated swimming pool (7×3.50m) and 1 children’s padding pool
- Children’s play areas (multiplay centres, swings, sandpits, trampoline, table tennis, volleyball court etc.)
- 1 tennis court
Special activities
Regular walks and canoe outings, usually combined with special-interest sighseeing
- Local lifestyles, crafts, and farming
- Sports and recreational leisure activities
- Tours of castles, manors and country houses
- Tours of unusual beauty spots etc.
Boules and volleyball tournaments and competitions, children’s games and board games are organised regularly for your enjoyment. Fun and relaxation for all!
Sightseeing in Dordogne
Sarlat-la-Médiévale : Situated only 10 kms (6 miles) from the Combas Holiday Village, Sarlat-la-Médiévale is one of the most delightful historic towns in France. The houses, roofed with stone slabs and slates, rise to slender gables and boast ornate stone dormer windows and Gothic doorways. There are shops beneath arcades and buildings with corner turrets. Together they create a sumptuous decor filled with the hustle and bustle of visitors to craft workshops and other retail outlets.
Sarlat is the main town in the area known as « Dark Périgord ». It becomes even busier on Saturdays when it is filled with the cries of its market, an event as colourful and redolent with wonderful aromas as anything Gargantua could dream of. Day-old chicks, poultry, fruit, piglets, walnuts, foie gras and truffles reign supreme as one month follows another. The town is also famous for its festivals, a film festival in autumn and a drama festival in summer. Whatever the time of year, Sarlat has cultural entertainment to share.
Castles:
Beynac (XII-XVIIe), Castelnaud (XII-XVIe), Eyrignac (Jardins du manoir XVII-XVIIIe), Fénelon (XIV-XVIIe), Fleurac (XIXe), L’Herm (Renaissance), Losse (XIV-XVIe), La Cypière, Les Milandes (XV-XIXe), Montfort (XVe), Puymartin (XV-XVIe), Salignac (XIII-XIVe)…
Abbeys: Cadouin, Limeuil, Paunat, St Amand de Coly, St Avit Senieur…
Prehistoric sites: La Micoque, Le Moustier, Le Regourdou, Castelmerle, La ferrassie, Laugerie Haute, Laugerie Basse, Pataud, Le Ruth…
Decorated caves and rock shelters: Bara-Bahau, Bernifal, Cap Blanc, Combarelles, Font de Gaume, Lascaux II, Le Poisson, Pataud, Le Thot, Rouffignac, St Cirq du Bugue…
Cave dwellings: Belvès, La Madeleine, La Roque St Christophe, La Roque Gageac, St Léon sur Vézère…
8 of the most beautiful villages in Périgord (listed by the Association des plus beaux villages de France) : Montpazier • La Roque Gageac • Domme • Beynac • Belvès • St-Jean-de-Cole • St-Léon-sur-Vézère • Limeuil
Caves, swallowholes and crystallisations: Grottes de Carpe Diem, Gouffre de Proumeyssac, grotte de la Halle, Grotte du Grand Roc…
Museums: Belvès (early and local hurdy-gurdies), Beynac (Archaeology), Le Bugue (Aquarium of the “Dark Périgord”, Village of Bournat, Wildlife centre), Cadouin (Velocipede museum), Castelnaud la Chapelle (Walnut eco-museum), Daglan (Dry stone house), Domme (Folk museum, Towers Gate, Knights Templar’s prison), Hautefort (Museum of Medicine), La Cassagne (Tithe barn, local museum), Les Eyzies (National prehistory museum, speleology museum, rock shelter museum (Abri Pataud), botanic garden), Limeuil (garden museum), Molières (Walnut centre), Montignac (Eugène Leroy museum), Nojals and Clottes (Beekeeping), Peyzac le Moustier (Fossil exhibition, prehistory), Salignac Eyvigues (Open-air folk museum), Sarlat (Car museum, aquarium), Thonac (Le Thot, prehistory (Cro-Magnon man), museum and wildlife park), Tourtoirac (Archaeology), Tursac (Prehistory park)…
