France Travel Planner by Tom Brosnahan & Jane Fisher   Transport for Dordogne Valley, France
The Vallée de la Dordogne has tow small airports, TER regional train service, and a regional transportation administration to get you around.

Horodateur (parking ticket machine), France
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Airports

Near Brive-la-Gaillarde

Aéroport Brive Vallée Dordogne

The Aéroport Brive Vallée Dordogne (BVE), near the towns of Nespouls (map) and Brive-la-Gaillarde offers connections with Ajaccio, Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Nice, Paris and Porto. More...

Near Bergerac

Aéroport Bergerac Dordogne Périgord

The Aéroport Bergerac Dordogne Périgord (EGC), 7 km (4 miles) southeast of Bergerac (map), serves flights to numerous cities in the UK as well as some in Austria, Belgium, Corsica, Croatia, France, Italy and the Netherlands. This is a small airport with limited services (snacks, car rental, local transport), open only when flights are arriving or departing. More...

Train

TGV trains depart Paris-Gare Montparnasse several times daily speeding to Bordeaux (2 hours), from which you take a TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine regional train to Libourne, Saint-Émilion, Bergerac, Lalinde, and Sarlat (2-1/2 hours).

TER regional trains also go from Bordeaux to Toulouse, Montauban, and Brive-la-Gaillarde.

You may also find a TGV train right from Paris's Aéroport Roissy-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) to Bordeaux, from which you can take TER regional trains to other destinations in the Dordogne region.

Regional Transport

Modalis, the regional bus service of the Transports de Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, operates bus routes connecting the cities and towns of the region. More...

The larger towns in the region (Bergerac, Sarlat, etc.) have their own limited local bus, shuttle and taxi services. See the pages on each town for more information.


Bergerac

Beynac-et-Cazenac

Cahors

Domme

Lalinde

La Roque-Gageac

Lascaux & Montignac

Les Eyzies

Perigueux

Rocamadour

Sarlat-la-Canéda

St-Cirq-Lapopie

 

Serene - a novel of the Belle Epoque

 

The Dordogne, its banks dotted with castles, at Beynac-et-Cazenac.

 

Alexandros - the island, a novel by Tom Brosnahan