Boucle des Hérons - Abjat sur Bandiat

The commune of Abjat-sur-Bandiat has 668 inhabitants. This population is spread over more than 39 villages, hamlets, mills and localities. The village is located in the center of the Parc Naturel Régional Périgord-Limousin, at an altitude of 300 m, on a peak that extends in peneplain towards the south to join the valley of the Dronne.
The Bandiat is the stream that runs through the village. Abjat has its own parish church, placed under the patronage and protection of Saint-André, brother of Saint-Pierre, whose feast day is celebrated on November 30. It would have depended on a priory whose vestiges adjoin it to the north. The building, of original construction, is composed of two adjoining naves, on the left a 12th century nave with a beautiful semi-circular portal doubled on the right in the 15th century.