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The Quercy is a land of welcome where it is good to walk and discover, at a turning
of the way, a landscape, a village, a mill, an abbey.... It is a
department which combines itself in five areas :
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The COUNTRY OF CAHORS AND the south of the
Lot
From White
Quercy, you will feel the first influences of the South towards
which rivers and brooks run out to visit country houses with the pink roofs,
windmills: places to discover "Guide Michelin
Cahors, with the Valentré bridge, the preserved district and
the Cathedral, without forgetting the festival of Blues
(mid-July).
Montcuq, Montcuq, keep of XIIe century,
the Sunday market and market of the producers of country (Thursday morning in
July and
August). The castle of Bonaguil
, situed on a rock, is a powerful strong castle, superbly
preserved. Puy-l'Evêque medieval city
dominating the river Lot. Belaye, with its superb sight on the valley.
Montpezat-de-Quercy, with the collegial Saint Martin's (14ième century).
(Tarn et Garonne). Lauzerte, country house of the
Middle Ages (Tarn et Garonne)
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The Country QUERCY-ROUERGUE
Figeac (with the
musée Champellion) whose old
city kept its plan of the Middle Ages. Capdenac, village where to walk on the headland or the
fortificationsThe Castle of Larroque-Toirac, "With side of a high cliff,
dominating the village and the valley of the Lot, the Castle, which was on
several occasions taken by the English army, in its medieval part all
its defensive system
preserved."
Cajarc,
made famous for President Pompidou who had there a property. And by the child
of the country, Francoise Sagan, revealed at the 19 years age by its first novel
"Hello Sadness"
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LE PARC NATUREL REGIONAL DES CAUSSES DU
QUERCY
Le gouffre de Padirac you carries out in the entrails of the ground. This vertiginous pit is
an appointment impossible to circumvent.
Rocamadour is built
in verticality. It is one of the most extraordinary sites
which are. The masonries defy balance along escarpée cliff. It
is also a place of pilgrimage, sanctuary of the Black Virgin.
Major stage of the pilgrimage of Saint Jacques de Compostelle. You
can also visit the monkey woods and rock
of the eagles
.Saint
Cirq Lapopie , one of the most beautiful sites of the Lot valley, overhangs left bank
of the Lot.
The Caves of Pech-Merle are
superb. On more than one kilometer, you will be able to admire prehistoric
paintings and engravings. (Attention, in order to protect the site, the number
of visits is limited. It is thus advised to hold its places in tourist season)
Marcilhac-sur-Célé The
old Abbaye Bénédictinne.
The Dolmen of la "borie du bois", one of the
most beautiful dolmens of Quercy.
Lalbenque, stage re-elected for its markets in truffles in winter.
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The
country of the DORDOGNE LOTOISE
Carennac
Castelnau-Bretenou with its splendid castle
Saint
céré
Souillac
Martel
You
are with the doors of Périgord Noir, near Sarlat-la-Canéda, of the
caves of Lascaux, Domme ….
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LE PAYS BOURIAN
"From GOURDON to the Lot Valley this
is the Bouriane. This area is covered with plantations of chestnuts,
pines and walnut trees. The vine occupies the quite exposed slopes. A
multitude of rivers furrow the plate creating of the undulating
and wooded landscapes to the dispersed habitat."
SALVIAC
CAZALS
CHATEAU DE MONTCLERA
(XV century)
LES ARQUES, incredibly peaceful
village. Museum of of the sculptor Ossip
Zadkine
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