Bournat park, Open-air museum and theme park in Le Bugue, France
The Parc du Bournat is a theme park and open-air museum in Le Bugue, Dordogne, covering eight hectares where a Périgord village of 1900 is rebuilt. It gathers public buildings such as a school, post office, chapel and washhouse, artisans' workshops including a baker's wood-fired oven, a wind-powered flour mill and a walnut-oil mill, and fairground rides.
The park opened in 1992 on the initiative of Paul-Jean Souriau, head of a French connector company, and was first called La ferme du Bournat, then Le village du Bournat. It reconstructs a Périgord village of 1900 with a school, post office, chapel and washhouse, plus workshops for a baker's wood-fired oven, a windmill, a walnut-oil mill and a potter. A campsite was added in 2019 after the purchase of the neighbouring Camping des 3 Caupains.
In most workshops an artisan is present, demonstrating the craft and answering questions: the baker's wood-fired oven, the wind-powered flour mill, the walnut-oil mill, the potter's workshop and the photographer's studio. Public buildings such as the school, post office, chapel and washhouse complete the reconstructed Périgord village of 1900.
The site covers eight hectares, with the reconstructed village, workshops and fairground rides spread across open ground, so plan on walking between the school, post office, chapel and washhouse. Artisans are present in most workshops during the summer season, when around a hundred staff work on site. The neighbouring Périgord Noir aquarium is next door, and a campsite adjoins the park.
The park opened in 1992 on the initiative of Paul-Jean Souriau, an industrialist who ran a company specialising in electrical connectors. It grew from a farm, La ferme du Bournat, into a reconstructed 1900s village, and in 2019 it took over the neighbouring former camping des 3 Caupains to add a campsite.
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