Tourtoirac

Tourtoirac ; Tortoirac
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Dordogne
Arrondissement	Sarlat-la-Canéda
Canton	Haut-Périgord Noir
Community association	Terrassonnais en Périgord Noir Thenon Hautefort
Coordinates	45 ° 16 ' N , 1 ° 4' E Coordinates: 45 ° 16 ' N , 1 ° 4' E
height	125-286 m
surface	25.43 km 2
Residents	644 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	25 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	24390
INSEE code	24555
	; View of Tourtoirac

Tourtoirac ( Occitan : Tortoirac ) is a French municipality with 644 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the north of the department Dordogne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The municipality is part of the canton of Haut-Périgord Noir (until 2015: canton of Hautefort ) in the arrondissement of Sarlat-la-Canéda . The inhabitants are called Tourtoiracais .

geography

Tourtoirac is located 30 kilometers east-northeast of Périgueux on the Auvézère . Tourtoirac is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Saint-Martial-d'Albarède in the north, Saint-Raphaël in the north, Cherveix-Cubas and Hautefort in the east, Sainte-Orse and Chourgnac in the south, Sainte-Eulalie-d'Ans in the west and south-west, Coulaures in the west and north-west and Saint-Pantaly-d'Excideuil in the north-west.

Monastery church of Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens from the 12th / 13th centuries Century with the remains of the former Benedictine abbey, Monument historique since 1939/1960
La Farge mansion from the 18th / 19th centuries century
Tourtoirac Cave

Orélie Antoine de Tounens (1825–1878), lawyer, adventurer and self-proclaimed King of Araucania and Patagonia
Achille Laviarde (1841–1902), adventurer, successor to Orélie de Tounens ("King of Araucania and Patagonia"), buried here

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