Castle ruins
The best view.
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Saint-Cirq-Lapopie is a medieval village in the Lot department of southwest France, overlooking the river Lot within the Causses du Quercy Regional Natural Park, about 18 km east of Cahors in a straight line. It belongs to the «Most Beautiful Villages of France» association. The village stands on a steep cliff 100 metres above the river, a site first chosen for defence, and it was the main seat of one of the four viscounties of Quercy. Its setting has made it one of the department's most visited places, almost a museum. The painter Henri Martin «discovered» it, artists followed, and the writer André Breton made his home here. Golden stone houses with steep brown roofs cling to the cliff edge, with cobbled lanes climbing between them to the ruins of the castle at the top. Below the cliff, the green Lot flows between woods and fields, curving through the wide valley. Visitors wander the lanes among craft workshops and small galleries and climb to the castle ruins for the best view of the river and valley. Some walk the towpath cut into the rock along the river near Bouziès; the village is busy by day in summer.
The best view.
In the lanes.
Along the river.
Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, Lot, Occitania, France
Yes, from Cahors.
Early morning or evening.