A huge castle of red stone on a hill above the Dordogne valley, one of the finest examples of medieval military architecture in France, built from the 12th century. Its towers and ramparts form a triangle around a great courtyard; inside are rooms furnished by an opera singer who restored it in the 1900s.
The views over the valley are wonderful. The Château de Montal is close by.
A Renaissance château built in the 1520s by Jeanne de Balzac for her son, who was killed in the Italian wars.
A pilgrimage village that clings to a 150 m cliff above the Alzou canyon, with chapels and sanctuaries stacked one above the other.
A medieval village clinging to a cliff 100 m above the Lot River, voted France's favourite village.
The cave of Lascaux, discovered in 1940, holds some of the finest prehistoric paintings in the world: bulls, horses and deer painted about 17,000 yea…
A medieval village of stone houses with slate roofs clinging to a steep hillside, around the Romanesque abbey church of Sainte-Foy, a great stop on t…
A fortified 14th-century bridge with three tall towers, crossing the Lot River at Cahors, and one of the finest medieval bridges in France.
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