1. LOT REGION La Grange - La TeulièreLot region - Lot cottage - Lot village
The local region around La Teulière
Gagnac-sur-Cère on our side of the river - showing the Mairie and the church.
Monsieur Lasfargeas is always
at home and welcoming in the Bar - whilst Alexandre
and his assistants
look after the kitchen - Three
generations of
the Lasfargeas family have
lived at
the Auberge-du-Vieux-Port
which is now in the hands of son Alexendre and his wife Nathalie.
Their young children now make it four generations although Grandpère
has since died.
Bretenoux is a bastide town dating back to 1277 with a lot of history and a charming cobbled market place.
Castelnau Bretenoux - only 10
kms from our cottage - built
of red ironstone
which glows in the afternoon
sun- a great example
of mediaeval military architecture.
Open to the public all year.
A few kms on from Bretenoux is
the vibrant small town of St Céré - with winding mediaeval
streets and
quaint
houses The town nestles beneath high hills all around
- and the two powerful
keeps of St-Laurent-les-Tours
- now the Museé de Jean Lurçat where this artist ran a secret
Resistance radio post during WW2.
Left - St Céré
is a charming small town with many upmarket shops and a big Saturday market.
Right - you can enjoy an excellent meal at the Hotel / Restaurant
Victor Hugo which is just across
the bridge. Jean-Luc will look after you well and he is a very
good chef.
Beaulieu is a fascinating little town
of riverside houses - cobbled mediaeval streets and
a
wealth of ancient ecclesiastical
architecture as it was a stopover on the route de Compostella.
There are several excellent restaurants here as well.
In
the heart of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne is the 9C Abbey-de-St-Pierre
-
founded by
the Counts of Turenne and
attached
in the 12C to the great Benedictine Abbey at Cluny in Burgundy.
The remarkable
tympanum above
the
main door is an important example of the famous Toulouse School of Carving
- as is the one at Carennac.
There
are some excellent wines of the south west - the best known and possibly
the best is
Centre
- the dark red Australian type wines of Cahors - the older ones are best
as Cahors is wine to put down.
Left
- vines of the next village just over the hill
from La Teulière which produces the Coteaux-de-Glanes
-
an excellent Vin de Pays.
Right - a market selling the another local wine - the wines of Quercy.
Driving from our cottage to Bretenoux
you pass
the garden at Bretenoux / Biars where every year they produce
a very special piece of topiary - last
year it was a train.
