Lot-et-Garonne: what to see and do
20 sites listed in the département. A land of medieval bastides and orchards, the Lot-et-Garonne cultivates a way of life around Agen, capital of the prune, and hilltop villages overlooking the Lot and Garonne valleys. This South-West département charms with its unspoilt rural gentleness.
Château de Bonaguil
The most beautiful fortress in France: a castle of the thirteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, listed as a Historic Monument.
Château de Duras
Château de Fumel
Château de Gavaudun
Château de Nérac
Château de Xaintrailles
Château des Rois Ducs
Grotte de Fontirou
La croisière du Prince Henry
Lud’O Parc
Monflanquin
Founded in the thirteenth century by Alphonse of Poitiers, this bastide perched on its mountain resisted many English attacks.
Penne-d'Agenais
A bastide perched above the Lot, crowned by the neo-Byzantine basilica of Notre-Dame de Peyragude.
Pujols-le-Haut
An important stronghold and fief of heretics, destroyed during the Albigensian war then rebuilt, Pujols has crossed the troubles of history, from the Hundred Years' War to the Revolution, safeguarding a large part of its thirteenth-century architectural heritage.
Tournon-d'Agenais
A perched bastide of the Lot-et-Garonne, with its arcaded square and medieval lanes.
Villascopia
Villeréal
Villeréal is in the south-west of France, in the south of the Dordogne, between Bergerac and Agen.
Walygator Sud-Ouest (ex-Walibi Aquitaine)
Z'animoland
Agen
