Le Bugue
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Dordogne | |
| Arrondissement | Sarlat-la-Canéda | |
| Canton | Vallée de l'Homme | |
| Community association | Vallée de l'Homme | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 55 ' N , 0 ° 56' E | |
| height | 48–245 m | |
| surface | 28.96 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,587 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 89 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 24260 | |
| INSEE code | 24067 | |
| Website | Le Bugue | |
 Town Hall ( Hôtel de ville ) |
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Le Bugue is a commune with 2,587 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in France in the Dordogne department , in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region .
geography
The city is located in the Périgord countryside on the north side of the Vézère , very close to its confluence with the Dordogne . The distance to Périgueux ( prefecture ) is about 40 kilometers.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
| Residents | 2424 | 2741 | 2778 | 2784 | 2764 | 2778 | 2762 | 2622 |
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Attractions
- The caves in the area of Le Bugue are particularly worth seeing with their prehistoric works of art or the impressive stalactite formations:
- Caverne de Bara-Bahau , west of Le Bugue
- Grotte de St-Cirq , prehistoric scratch drawings
- Grotte de Proumeyssac , stalactite cave
- A medieval bridge from 1463 crosses the Vézère.
- The Village du Bournat is an open-air museum and shows a farming village in Périgord at the end of the 19th century.
partnership
In 1988, Le Bugue entered into a partnership with the Alsatian town of Marckolsheim , in memory of the evacuation of part of the local population to the Périgord at the beginning of the Second World War .
Personalities
- Jean Rey (1583–1645), doctor and physicist, was born in Le Bugue, where he also worked and died.
Others
British author Martin Walker owns a house in Le Bugue. His detective novel Bruno - Chef de police and all subsequent volumes are set here; in the novel the place is referred to as Saint-Denis . The main hero Bruno was modeled after the real gendarme Pierrot Simmonet from Le Bugue.
literature
- Susanne Böttcher (Ed.): Périgord, Dordogne, Limousin. (= The Green Guide. ) Travel-House-Media, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-8342-8995-7 , p. 113.
