Saint-Seurin-de-Prats

Saint -Seurin -de- Prats ( Occitan: Sent Sieurin de Prats ) is a southwestern French village with 478 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the Dordogne in the Aquitaine region.

Location

Saint -Seurin -de- Prats is located on the north bank of the Dordogne at a height of about 10 meters above sea level. inst in the far west of the department of Dordogne, close to the Gironde department. The nearest major town is about 39 km ( driving distance ) located east of Bergerac, the capital of the arrondissement.

Demographics

In the 19th century the number of inhabitants of about 950 dropped in 1800 to about 575 in 1900.

Economy

In earlier times, the residents of the community lived as subsistence agriculture, which included the wine and a little livestock. Since medieval times part of the wine produced in the area was shipped in barrels and on rafts or barges over the Dordogne and the ports of the Gironde to England and Northern Europe. The ripened on the bottoms of the municipality wines are marketed on the appellations Montravel, Bergerac, Côtes de Bergerac and Périgord, but plays the rental of apartments ( gîtes ) also play an important role in the economic life of the community.

Attractions

• The Parish Church ( Église Saint -Seurin ) is an imposing building with a cross neoromanischer house from the middle of the 19th century, whose façade design employs the repertoire of the medieval churches of Charente and Saintonge. The facade is of a bell gable excessive, whose three-arched design at a - reminds triumphal arch scheme - in south west France so popular.
• On the free space next to the church is a stand -mouth ( travail) to clean up and maintenance of the hooves of working animals (horses and oxen ).
• The Château de Prats (44 ° 49 ' 34 "N, 0 ° 3' 53 " O44.8261111111110.064722222222222 ) is a two-storey neo-classical building from the second half of the 18th century. Striking feature is the four columns with Ionic capitals and designed by a triangular gable roofed portico. The privately owned building was recognized in 1974 as a monument historique.
• In the vicinity of the place, there are three other estates: Château de Monvert (17th century), Château de Pitray ( 18th century), Château du Vigneau ( 18th century). The Chateau de Monvert part of a standing on four pillars dovecot ( pigeon ) of timber.