Cahors

Nigel has written to members:

As indicated last month, our second 2024 event will be a visit to Cahors. We have arranged for a 50-minute Petit-train tour of the city starting at 11h:00 on Wednesday 26 June. Cahors is on quite a steep hill and the principal sights are some distance from each other. The tour will enable us to get our directions while taking in some of the best-known of these: the Maison Henri IV, surviving fragments of the city wall, mediaeval quarter, ball-bearing clock (horloge à billes), barbican, cathedral, and so on. The tour begins in the Allée des soupirs, down by the Lot and just 200 metres from the magical Pont Valentré footbridge, begun in the fourteenth century as part of the town defences and restored in the 1880s.

There will follow a lunch at the Hôtel-restaurant La Chartreuse, on the banks of the Lot, a short drive or ten-minute riverside walk from the Petit-train. 

Options for the afternoon include a visit to the Musée Henri-Martin, just off Place Gambétta in the heart of the city; the cathedral and its cloister; and the streets of the mediaeval city that run down to the river. There are also some traces of Divona Cadurcorum, the ancient capital of the Romanized Caourques.

Cahors is much visited in summer and so members should respond to Nigel’s email not later than Tuesday 11 June to ensure places can be secured.