Souillac & la Vallée de la Dordogne, in Quercy


Souillac

THE REGION :

At the heart of the old Souillac you will find the Sainte-Marie church (with a wonderful roof with domes) and the remains of the Saint-Martin church (the belfry), The automaton museum (This collection of automatons and mechanical toys from the 19th and 20th centuries is unique in Europe),

The old Prune museum (a distillery of liquors, spirits and aperitifs). You can visit its store and taste every product!)
- The natural cave of Lacave,
- The prehistoric park Préhistologia,
- And so on...

AROUND SOUILLAC:

Garden of Carennac

Souillac allows you to visit many nice sites such as :

* Towns of Sarlat (25km) and Rocamadour (27km)
* a few of the most villages in France like Carennac, Loubressac, Martel...
* Natural caves : Padirac, La Cave...
* Caves with prehistoric drawings in Lascaux, Cougnac, Pech Merle...
* The Dordogne valley villages : Beynac, La Roque Gageac, Domme...

Castelnaud Castle

* Medieval castles : Castelnau Bretenoux, de Montal, Fénélon, Hautefort, Beynac...
* Gardens and parks: Marqueyssac, Eyrignac...
* And, around 30km the south of Corréze department with Brive, Turenne, Collonges la Rouge...

Hard to list all the sites you can visit because the region is full of beautiful places !

élevage d'oies

"Gariottes" in the "Quercy"

And more ...

You will also find a large number of leisure activities and sports : cycling, hiking, kayak, potholing, golf, ULM, horse riding, etc...)