Lot: Cahors Wine, Rocamadour, and Underground Rivers
Lot is a rural department in the Occitanie region with about 176,000 residents. Cahors, the prefecture, is famous for its dark tannic wine (Cahors was a major wine exporter to England in the Middle Ages) and the Pont Valentre, a fourteenth-century fortified bridge that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Lot river carves deep meanders through limestone country.
Rocamadour, a pilgrimage village built vertically into a cliff face, draws over a million visitors a year. The Gouffre de Padirac, a vast underground cavern with a navigable river 103 metres below the surface, is another major site. The Causses du Quercy Regional Natural Park covers much of the department. Truffle markets in Lalbenque and Limogne-en-Quercy are important winter events. Figeac, birthplace of Jean-Francois Champollion who deciphered the Rosetta Stone, is the second town.
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Lot is a rural department in the Occitanie region with about 176,000 residents. Cahors, the prefecture, is famous for its dark tannic wine (Cahors was a major wine exporter to England in the Middle Ages) and the Pont Valentre, a fourteenth-century fortified bridge that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Lot river carves deep meanders through limestone country.
Rocamadour, a pilgrimage village built vertically into a cliff face, draws over a million visitors a year. The Gouffre de Padirac, a vast underground cavern with a navigable river 103 metres below the surface, is another major site. The Causses du Quercy Regional Natural Park covers much of the department. Truffle markets in Lalbenque and Limogne-en-Quercy are important winter events. Figeac, birthplace of Jean-Francois Champollion who deciphered the Rosetta Stone, is the second town.
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