Montaigu-de-quercy

Rolled up around its hill, the village of Montaigu de Quercy is an old medieval fortified town which preserved some beautiful remainders of ramparts at the bottom where you can benefit from a beautiful sight on the valley. This walk makes you discover the houses of the village to the beautiful white stones. But many other paths of hiking, take you along to visit the canton with its fountains, its laundrettes, its churches, its windmills, its farms cossues… to impregnate our culture, markets and artisanal exposures supplement the discovery by offering best products to you soil.

Chief town of canton, Montaigu de Quercy enorgueillit to have one of the most beautiful bases of Leisures of the sector: the Water level of the Oaks. Within this splendid framework, a campsite 3 stars offers calm, user-friendliness and lodging of quality and animations. It proposes a hundred quite shaded sites for tents and caravans and hirings of mobilhomes. The medical ones accessible to are handicapped and a beach is reserved to the campers. The bathe, in a water of good quality, is supervised. Sand beaches white, nautical toboggan, pedal boats, tennis, mini golf and many surfaces of picnic await nothing any more but you.

The Residences (Clévacances 3 keys - 4 or 6 people), stone-built houses to the original style in overhang of the lake, accomodate you in full nature. Distant with two kilometers of the village, these hirings are very well equipped, comfortable and ideal for family holidays. The place has one free access to the base of leisures and the plays.

• Church St-Caprais:

The primitive church, undoubtedly Romance, it remains almost nothing; the unit belongs at the end of XVth century, but it was taken again at the XVIIth century after the wars of religion.

• St-Pierre church:

The Romance origin (XII nd), the apse alone is remained intact; the remainder was altered on several occasions.

• Church Dedicated to the Nativity of Notre Dame:

The primitive Church of Romance origin was doubled in the XVth century and was altered at the XVIIth century and XIXth century.

• Church of the Assumption

Mentioned in notarial acts of XIIIrd century, it existed certainly much earlier. gistered with the inventory of M. H.

• Church of Tastes

* St-Pierre church
Church mentioned in XIIIrdcentury. The building of the end of XVth century was altered at the XIXème century. Classified frescos M.H. in 1953.
* Church St-Vincent of Auriac It is of the last Gothic period, but it lost its vault of origin at the time of the wars of religion and was very altered thereafter.

A armful of freshness, the sand beaches white, a great number of play activities or sporting, without forgetting a water of excellent quality, a supervised bathe… a framework which enchants the children and tranquillizes the parents for an active stay…, idleness…

Watery toboggans, let us bridge and diving boards, canoe-kayaks, plays of page, courts of tennis, miniature golf, table tennis, sets of balls…

Here, you do nothing like elsewhere… saying to you… one even makes push lavender… and if we have a museum in the vicinity, it is that of the hearse! Here thus what to astonish your holidays… Accroclinium, Achillées, Nigelles of Damas…
Funny of diseases, small beasts? Not, flowers of the fields… Florever: creations in dried flowers

* The rows of vines are stretched, indolent on the plate… the brooms at the beautiful season splash with gold the landscape, the winter the rare houses are held hot… a little paradise at the end of the road! Field of Pech Bely*: Wines of the Slopes of Quercy (Sale and tasting on return) Anne JOORIS and Sebastien RICHARD
* Mention particular to the Garden of the Pilgrim who gained many prices of which that of “remarkable garden” decreed by the Ministry for the Culture and the Communication in 2006. It is a play of the goose life size, unclassable, instructive and poetic on the topic of the pilgrimage with St Jacques de Compostelle; as of and rules of the game with the Tourist office of Lauzerte.
* A corner of Provence in Quercy, full sun nostrils… Distilling of Servat/lavender of Quercy, distillation in public Wednesday in summer
* The stronghold of the “knave of diamonds”… And to finish, our “funny” of Museum… Museum of the Hearse and the Attachment (and also agricultural museum, secondhand trade and restaurant)

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