Curemonte is a small village with three castles, three churches, three crosses and three wells. For that reason alone iti is worth a visit. Once a hub in the local grain trade, to which the beautiful covered grain hall still stands witness. Cozy place to...
Loubressac is a village on top of the rocks, with a phenomenal view over three valleys: the Dordogne, the Célé and the Bave. The beautiful village is very harmoniously built from the same ocher-colored stone. Do not expect too many tourist shops, but enjoy a...
Autoire is located on the edge of a valley. From the village center you make take a nice stroll towards the (at times) spectacular waterfall. After a long drought the sight can be somewhat less specctacular. The village was once a popular summer residence for...
Saint-Cirq-Lapopie was voted as the most popular village in France in 2012. It lies against a cliff and overlooks the valley of the Lot. Once Richard the Lionheart conquered this strategically located village, and afterwards it swapped hands between the French and the English many...
Commarque was once a fortified town that suffered greatly during the religious wars. Four centuries ago, the last inhabitants moved away. What was left was a ruin, which over the last 50 years has been revealing its secrets little by little and now shows us...
The Musée de l'Automate in Souillac is with its 300 pieces Europe's largest collection of mechanical toys and vending machines. These cute and often funny mechanisms, occassionally electrically driven, when combined often make up whole diaromas that used to brighten Parisian storefronts into the 1950's....
The National Museum of Prehistory is located in Les Eyzies de Tayac, in the valley of the Vézère. It is the most important museum on prehistory as well as a major research center. The museum is located among numerous previously inhabited caves unearthed along the...
This museum in Les Arques, dedicated to Ossip Zadkine, houses many monumental works of this Russian artist. Zadkine fell in love with this house in the Lot in 1934 and, besides living in Paris, spent much of his time there. Sculptures in stone and wood,...
The Lascaux cave, located in Montignac, is sometimes said to be the Sistine Chapel of prehistoric caves. For decades the original caves have been closed to the public, but an extremely meticulous reconstruction does not suggest that this is the case. Lascaux attracts visitors from...
