Beaulieu means in Englisch: Beautiful place. And the 1000 soul community on the western edge of the French Massif Central, between woods and meadows on the banks of the Dordogne, is rightly called Beaulieu.
Picturesque alleys with Renaissance houses characterise the town, but also defiant churches, such as the Abbey Church of St. Pierre, which is one of the most impressive sacred buildings in the southwest of France.

Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne is also the city of strawberries. 400 tons of the red fruit are harvested here every year.
Many of the fruits end up in the bakeries of the local pastry shops, which - always on the second Sunday in May - bake gigantic strawberry cakes from them.

This is distributed at the annual strawberry festival of the municipality. Last year the cake consisted of 200 kilos of strawberries and was 32 metres long: World record.
The festivities also include a strawberry market, a culinary market with local products and musical performances.