Located sixteen kilometres (ten miles) past Martel on the GR 46—GR 480 path, Turenne is the perfect place to stop after your first day of walking. It’s also the first of six ‘most beautiful villages’ you’ll visit on this long-distance walk which winds 130 kilometres (81 miles) from Martel to Rocamadour. (Published May 2013, last updated […]

Nine hundred years ago, in the eleventh century, Cluny monks built a monastery in a small clearing near the Dordogne River. A village soon developed around the abbey, a château was built next door and high walls protected the occupants.  Today, this slice of medieval history, known as Carennac, is classified among France’s ‘most beautiful […]