Thiviers

Thiviers stands on a height in the northern Périgord. The castle of Vaucocourt guarded the town from the edge of a cliff, within the circuit of its walls, while another castle watched the plain to the north. Thiviers was a stopping place on a pilgrimage route, yet its position did not spare it from war. After its walls were again dismantled during the Fronde, a suburb grew beyond them around the fairground.