Family time: our favourite outings with children

This wooded park, dedicated to protecting endangered species, is home to around 200 animals from five regions of the world. Its special feature: you can walk into some of the enclosures, with lemurs or wallabies, along a 2 km trail beneath the trees. You can also watch the animals being fed.

This fortified castle houses a museum of medieval warfare: weapons, armour and life-size reconstructions of siege engines such as the trebuchet. In summer, live events bring daily life in a fortress back to life. Children love it, and the view over the valley delights the parents.

Set on an island in the Dordogne, this treetop adventure park offers nine courses with a continuous safety line, across six levels of difficulty, and 1,500 metres of zip lines, some of them over the water. You can make a day of it by the river.

In the park of Château des Milandes, once Josephine Baker's home, a free-flight birds of prey show sends the birds swooping just above your heads. Then visit the castle and its gardens, and discover the remarkable story of its former owner.

Right next to the aquarium, this reconstructed village brings the Périgord of the late 19th century back to life: the school, the chapel, the wash house, the farm, craftsmen at work (blacksmith, baker…) and old-fashioned fairground rides. Both visits fit easily into the same day.

In Le Bugue, this aquarium shows the fish of the Périgord's rivers and freshwater species from around the world, in large tanks. A perfect outing for a rainy day… or a very hot one.

Near the Lacave caves, a woodland trail with sound commentary takes you from the Big Bang to the Neolithic through more than 150 life-size reconstructions: dinosaurs, including a 9-metre animated T-Rex, prehistoric mammals and a Neolithic village.

During the day, the little train shuttles every fifteen minutes between the valley car parks and the town's main street, saving little legs. In the evening, a half-hour guided ride tells the story of Rocamadour.