Martel’s central square, place des Consuls, is home to the former fortress of the viscounts, Hôtel de la Raymondie, and is filled by a great market on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Truffle markets feature in December and January.
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France’s most famous prehistoric cave paintings are at the Grotte de Lascaux, 2km southeast of Montignac. Naturally sealed and protected for millennia, it…
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Just inside the gateway of the Château du Doyen sit the priory and the Romanesque Église St-Pierre with a remarkable Romanesque tympanum of Christ in…
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The slate roof of the ancient covered market shelters an equally ancient baker’s oven.
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Natural cave with stalactites and 20,000-year-old cave art; in L’Hospitalet.