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THE DORDOGNE Best for
Regional cuisine, beautiful
PAGE 416 These verdant valleys have been inhabited for tens of valleys and rivers, superb
prehistoric cave paintings
thousands of years, as the many prehistoric cave sites
attest. The hunting scenes painted some 20,000 years
ago at Lascaux seem to leap from the walls, while the Home to
Sarlat, Rocamadour, Abbaye
“Venuses”, prehistoric statutes of women, have been du St-Pierre, Toulouse
found in caves all around Les Eyzies. The Dordogne Experience
river makes its sinuous progress through gorges and Spelunking to discover
farmland, overlooked by ancient towns like lofty extraordinary prehistoric art
Rocamadour, which have barely changed in centuries.
Earthy local specialities such as magret de canard are
delicious paired with the robust wines from Cahors.
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