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Durfort ( 542 inhabitants) extends over a hilly territory and, wooded, drained by the Crespenou, the tributary of the Vidourle. The medieval village is established on a nipple, snuggled up around its old castle of the XII-th century. Of this last one, it remains the donjon.
Of the old castle he even, except the Tower, there is a body of building(ship) of the same time, which(who) dominated the main entrance the place of which one guesses just at the moment ; it also remains the south wing, which had been reshaped in the revival and which kept(preserved) its round tower of angle.
By crossing(going through) the old village, one finds the round plan of its surrounding wall(speaker) of the 14th century and by place one can again see walls in beautiful device or the rests of one of four doors giving him(her) access. The village would have curled up around the feudal castle to the 12th ; leaving alone aside the parochial church Saint Thomas, of whom it(he) remains only one of the lateral chapels today.
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The current church was built in 1685, and on 1687, following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, with stones of the ancient(former) Romanic church. On the place of the Cross, which owes its name to a monumental cross today disappeared, rises one of the former(old) fountains of the village, built in 838 above the common well. Until this time, there was no water source in the village, except this well, but which was just outside of ramparts.
Sossenac's Martinmas kept(preserved) the rests of its church of the 11th and Vibrac's castle, built to the 16th around a donjon of the 12th century.
For any information, please, contact Durfort's city hall or the Office of Tourism of Sauve
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