Saint-Amand-de-Coly is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.

It has been designated one of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France ("The most beautiful villages of France").

Geography

Saint-Amand-de-Coly is located 9 km east of Montignac.

Sights

Saint-Amand-de-Coly features a fortified Romanesque church. Despite its bristling military architecture, the 12th-century church combines great delicacy and spirituality, with purity of line and simple decoration most evocative in the low sun of late afternoon or early evening. Its defences include walls that are 4m thick, a ditch runs all the way around, and a passage once skirted the eaves, with numerous positions for archers. Blind stairways are designed to mislead attackers. There is also an interesting atelier that makes classic French copper cookware.

See also

• Communes of the Dordogne department

References

Based on the article in the French Wikipedia.