Dignac.—A pretty village, with a Romanesque church.
La Rochebeaucourt.—Small village, with picturesque château and Romanesque church.
Mareuil-sur-Belle.—Village, with a partially ruined castle of thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; now a farmhouse, and can be entered.
Brantôme.—A very attractive little town on the River Dronne; ancient monastery, with caves containing rock sculpture; a gateway and a remarkable Romanesque church, with a detached tower of the eleventh century; several old houses and a fifteenth-century parish church, now the market-house.
Château-l’Évêque.—A small village, with a very picturesque château of the fifteenth century.
Chancelade.—A village with great stone-quarries, and an abbey church dating from 1120.
Périgueux.—A historic city, founded in Gallo-Roman times; Cathedral of St. Front, with five domes, eleventh or twelfth century; ruined church at west end of earlier date; several old houses in the narrow streets. The Tour Mataquerre, of the fourteenth century, is a part of the ramparts; St. Étienne, formerly the cathedral, eleventh and twelfth centuries, with three domes; Roman amphitheatre of third century A.D., converted into a castle in twelfth century; Tour de Vésone, part of a Roman temple; Château Barrière has a Roman base; near it is a plain Roman arch, called the Porte Normande.
Lamonzie-Montastruc.—Feudal château, chiefly of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Angoulême, like Poitiers, occupies an isolated tabular site raised above the Charente, and has beautiful views from the wide boulevards which encircle the town, where the ramparts and towers formerly stood. In medieval times the outline of the town must have been most imposing, with every tower, spire, and crenellation thrown up against the sky. To-day, although some towers have survived, there is no striking silhouette, and Angoulême has a spacious modern aspect, which even the cupolas and fantastic sculpture of its cathedral cannot alter.