Held every Sunday in the beautiful medieval town of Issigeac, this is a typical Perigord market…read morewith lots of shopping options, including food. It stretches throughout the old city center - centre ville and, curves through the laneways of this beautiful town. I have always loved the markets around France and this one is special as it's historic and there is about 200 vendors or more there. You get everything from fashion to food. A handful of people selling local fresh produce, truffles, foie gras and lots of cooked food like cakes and BBQ meats. Go early as it got really busy after 11am. Until then it was nice and quiet and the stalls were letting you sample all their foods. The highlight for me was the oyster man - 6 oysters for €5 and they were huge. I just stood there at the shop and ate them :-) lots of people were amused :-) The heirloom tomatoes I bought here were some of the sweetest I have ever tasted....yummmm, not to mention the figs stuffed with foie gras, unbelievable ;-)) I would come here in a heartbeat. It's a gorgeous market in beautiful settings.

Good butcher with fresh, high quality, and reasonably-priced meats. He is quick and to the point,…read morebut always puts up with our time-wasting perusing. We try to go when there isn't a line out the door so we don't feel rushed to make decisions.