Smart, serein places and historic quarters are what Périgueux is made of.

Place Saint Louis, La Source (sculpture below)

You will get a decent expresso in most cafés in town, but if it's a great café créme you want, I can't think of a better place than Au coeur du café also known as Café Errel on the place Coderc (where the daily market is located). You may purchase some excellent croissants from the boulangerie a few meters up the rue Limogeane or next to the small Post Office.

The Périgord région has a lively communauty of artistes who cater for all tastes and who often exposed at the gallery Art Notre in the old part of Périgueux, Yvette Sacristani (below) or Petula Beynet-Lacombe (above).

Market day is, well, every day...
But the main market days take place on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

The place Francheville (below) has a large multi-screen cinema and restaurants since its completion in October 2006.

The Ice Garden Café aka Café de Paris (below) one of the hippest café in town.