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 the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. The carved tympanum of the Last Judgement over the door is one of the finest in France.
The treasury holds the golden reliquary statue of Saint Foy. The modern stained glass windows are by the painter Pierre Soulages.
A Renaissance château built in the 1520s by Jeanne de Balzac for her son, who was killed in the Italian wars.
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 th…
A medieval village clinging to a cliff 100 m above the Lot River, voted France's favourite village.
A pyramid-shaped summit at the heart of the Cantal volcano, the largest ancient volcano in Europe, with green valleys radiating out like the spokes o…
A pilgrimage village that clings to a 150 m cliff above the Alzou canyon, with chapels and sanctuaries stacked one above the other.
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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