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Heading North. Said to have been inhabited since Gallo-Roman times, Sarlat became a prosperous city at the end of the VIIIth century. The town suffered from the Norman invasions and then from the Hundred Years War owing to its position as a frontier region between the kings of France and England. The town, well fortified by its Consuls, withstood all attacks.

It is likely that many other towns in France possessed as many curious and picturesque cobbled streets and as many handsome buildings, but modernisation usually destroyed these treasures of the past, which is not the case here.The old facades are now as they were under their magnificent stone roofs and the old quarters have been rescued from their lethargy.

Short stop in Saint Amand de Coly, in order to see the fortified church:

Then direction Montignac, in order to visit the facsimile of the famous Paleolithic Lascaux cave, 200m from the original

The temperature does not want to go down, Brantôme and its water feels nicely refreshing: