The Lot and Quercy
Days 1-7 · 6 nightsOn Rue du Panorama, in Tour-de-Faure, opposite Saint-Cirq-Lapopie. You sleep facing the village clinging to its cliff, and go up in the morning before the visitors arrive.
110-€160 a nightSee on Booking →A 3-star hotel on Rue Gaumon, in a medieval house in Figeac. The Champollion Museum and the old town are within walking distance, before heading back down the Célé valley.
€115 a nightSee on Booking →A 3-star hotel with a swimming pool on Route de la Grèze in Loubressac, facing the Château de Castelnau-Bretenoux. For ending the route in peace and visiting the château as soon as it opens.
Loubressac is listed among the Most Beautiful Villages of France, and is best explored on foot.
€100 a nightSee on Booking →A hotel set in an oak wood, on Impasse des Esclargies in Rocamadour. For a quiet stay on the causse, with the religious town close by and the Lot valley an hour's drive away.
€115 a nightSee on Booking →On Place Sombral, in the heart of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, above the Lot. You enjoy the village in the evening and the morning, when the day visitors have gone.
The village is closed to cars: park in the outer car parks and finish on foot with your bags.
€80 a nightSee on Booking →A 2-star hotel on Rue Louis Bénech in Tour-de-Faure, opposite Saint-Cirq-Lapopie. A reasonably priced base for the village, the Bouziès towpath and the Pech Merle cave.
The Saint-Cirq-Lapopie car parks are paying: go up early in summer to find a space.
€75 a nightSee on Booking →On Place de la Carreta, in the medieval town of Rocamadour. For seeing the town in the evening, then driving on to the Château de Castelnau-Bretenoux.
The town is pedestrianised: ask the hotel how to get there by car with your luggage.
€75 a nightSee on Booking →On Place de l'Europe, in L'Hospitalet, above the town of Rocamadour. You walk down to the sanctuary and keep the car for Padirac and the Dordogne valley.
€65 a nightSee on Booking →A hotel-restaurant on Rue de Lamagale in Rocamadour, the clifftop town in the north of the Quercy. You sleep on site to see the sanctuaries before the groups arrive, as Saint-Cirq-Lapopie and Cahors then mean a drive.
€65 a nightSee on Booking →On Chemin du Travail, in Lacave, on the banks of the Ouysse, just off the Lot and Célé route. You come here above all for the starred restaurant, and stay the night so as not to drive after dinner.
The house has been run by the Chambon family for several generations: book the starred restaurant before the room.
180-€260 a nightSee on Booking →A guesthouse with a starred restaurant on Chemin de Saint-Géry in Lascabanes, south of Cahors. For a quiet gastronomic stay, with the Pont Valentré and the Cahors vineyards by car.
Book the starred restaurant at the same time as the room.
€280 a nightSee on Booking →A 4-star hotel on Rue Émile Zola, in a medieval mansion in Figeac. For staying in the old town, a few streets from the Champollion Museum, before the Célé valley.
€160 a nightSee on Booking →On Rue Orbe, in the centre of Souillac, in a 16th-century mansion. A base in the north of the Lot for Rocamadour, the Gouffre de Padirac and the Dordogne valley by car.
€140 a nightSee on Booking →A luxury guesthouse in Cuzance, near Martel, in the north of the Lot, far from Cahors. An address for a stay on the Rocamadour and Dordogne valley side rather than the Lot valley.
€200 a nightSee on Booking →