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21st November 2008
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Towns and Villages of the Lot and Quercy       |
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The "Bastides", towns created out of nothing in the 13th and 14th centuries, are one of the most distinctive features of Midi-Pyrénées. There are several in the Lot, including Castelnau-Montratier, Cazals, Castelfranc, Montcabrier and Bretenoux...
Saint Antonin Noble Val is a commune of the Tarn-et-Garonne département, of southwest France. In ancient times, it was known by its Celtic name of Condate (confluence) after joining of the Tarn and Aveyron rivers....
Albas is a charming little village, built entirely of the local stone and wedged precariously into a rocky cleft on the left bank of the river. Today is the day of the annual fête du vin and the whole village bows in worship of the grape and gives itself up to the pleasures of the table...
A beautifully preserved ancient Quercy village of character, with an 800 year history, seemingly undisturbed by the modern world. This immaculately preserved village rests in a small valley dominated ...
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At the southern edge of the Lot and Quercy region, the fortified market town of Bruniquel occupies a magnificent position high above the confluence of the Aveyron and Vère rivers...
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The town of Moissac, in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne owes its international reputation to its artistic heritage, handed down by the old Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Pierre. Legend has it that the town was founded by Clovis but history attributes its creation, more precisely, to Saint Didier the Bishop of Cahors, in the middle of the seventh century.
On the banks of the Dordogne river, but within the department of the Lot (in the Vallee de la Dordogne region), Carennac has been a site of human habitation since Neolithic times...
The village of Cardaillac, firmly anchored on its rocky outcrop in Haut Quercy, takes its name from the feudal family that built it and brought notoriety and prosperity to the area...
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Set on a rocky outcrop and dominating the Garonne valley, the village of Auvillar (Alta Villa) was established in Gallo-Roman times, and was an important port for the river trade...
Half way between the rivers of the Lot and the Dordogne, Lacapelle Marival is nestled in a landscape of hills at the western edge of the Massif Central...
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Lauzerte is an historic bastide or fortified village and can trace its origins back to the signing of the village charter in 1241 by the Count of Toulouse...
Overhanging the valleys of the Dordogne, Cère and Bave, the medieval city of Loubressac sits atop a rocky outcrop with its castle, church and village houses with roofs made of beautiful red-brown tiles...
Small and very pretty bastide village dominating the valley of the Lède between Agenais and Périgord. Founded in the 13th Century by Alphonse of Poitiers, Count de Toulouse ...
St-Cirq-Lapopie dramatically overhangs the river Lot clinging precariously to a rocky outcrop high above the river. The village was divided in the Middle Ages between four feudal dynasties...
Beautiful small village in the heart of the Lot et Garonne, just 2 km from Villeneuve-sur-Lot. Perched high on a hill it occupies a dominant position above the Lot valley...