Ventadour

Ventadour Castle stands on a rocky spur above the wooded gorges of the Limousin. The viscounts of Ventadour made it a court where troubadours composed and performed, among them the celebrated Bernart de Ventadorn. During the Hundred Years' War its strong position attracted a very different company: in 1379 the captain Geoffroy Tête Noire and his soldiers occupied the fortress, using it as a base amid the fighting that ravaged the region.