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CAHORS
, on the River Lot, was the capital of the old province of Quercy. In its time, it has been a Gallic settlement; a Roman town; a briefly held Moorish possession; a town under English rule; a bastion of Catholicism in the Wars of Religion, sacked in consequence by Henri IV; a university town for four hundred years; and birthplace of the politician Léon Gambetta (1838-82), after whom so many French streets and squares are named. Modern Cahors is a sunny southern backwater, with two interesting sights in its
cathedral
and the remarkable fourteenth-century
Pont Valentré
.
While you're in the Cahors area, don't miss out on the local
wine
, heady and black but dry to the taste and not at all plummy like the Gironde wines from Blaye and Bourg, which use the same Malbec grape.
The Town
Small and easily walkable, the town squats on a peninsula formed by a tight loop in the River Lot, and is protected on the northern side by a rank of fourteenth-century
fortifications
, with the
Barbacane de St-Jean
making a breach...
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