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... and evil. It was quite fascinating. Its interior was austere, typical of the Romansque style of 1050 - 1135.
Our third village for the day, just because we hadn't had enough of medieval villages, was the famous Rocamadour. This village runs down a sheer rock face. It houses a holy shrine and is a centre of pilgramage and is a huge tourist attraction. We saw all the chapels and main basilica but refrained from buying any religious token. It certainly was a spectacular sight, though.
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A Time Capsule
What an amazing place! We have spent 4 nights here, using this village as a base to tour the Lot Valley region. Imagine, driving through the forest and then coming around a bend in the road and finding this village precariously perched on a steep hillside. It really is "miles from anywhere". Nearly every house is at least 300 years old but some are much older. The Abbey Church, the centrepiece of ...
Aire on the quiet side
Sun 2 Sept Boyne - Sauveterre-de-Rouergue
Quiet night back on the same campsite and same old codger hovering with intent. We picked out an easier walk in the gorge just the other side of Millau, near the famous viaduc de Millau (the highest in Europe?). It was meant to be a short 7 kms stroll to visit a series of caselles, stone built shepherd huts set on the causses. The starting village, Compregnac, was very pretty, but roadworks meant the ...
LE CANTAL, LE PLUS BEAU PAYS DU MONDE ?
... publics réduits à la portion congrue
- La détresse des petits paysans
- Un pays qui se désertifie
- L'arrêt d'un moratoire qui maintenait des classes uniques dans chaque village
- La gare SNCF d'Aurillac menacée de fermeture, les liaisons ferroviaires menacées
- Les batailles électorales au sein de la gauche pour conquérir la mairie ...
AURILLAC 2012 : UN COUP D'ECLAT DANS L'EAU
... de rue, mais d'une façon tout de même limitée.
Quant aux troupes du "in" ... La différenciation entre "in" et "off" était désormais clairement établie. J'ai été surpris de l'augmentation du nombre de spectacles payants et de leur prix (treize euros de moyenne tout de même).
Comble de malchance, deux spectacles gratuits du "In" auxquels je voulais assister ont été annulés. Ce festival ...
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