Domme was built by King Philip the Bold as an impregnable
fortress, but Geoffrey de Vivans managed to capture it with his
Protestant mediaeval special forces team of just 30 men, who climbed
the "unclimbable" cliff face and opened the gates. He
eventually sold it back to the Catholics in 1592 for 40,000 livres.
Shame he burnt the church.
These days Domme still has a bit of a problem. A truly
beautiful village
of France, with its cobbled streets and champagne coloured Dordogne
stone houses in its magnificent setting on a hill dominating a huge
curve of the Dordogne river, it is one of those places in France
that you just have to visit. And that's the problem... everyone
does... in their thousands.
Mind you, its very popularity means it has good restaurants
and little pavement bars to while away a good chunk of the day.
So maybe Domme does not really have a problem at all.
