Cahors

Enclosed on three sides by a spectacular meander of the Lot, Cahors has kept a dense historic centre of medieval and Renaissance mansions, notably in the old Barry quarter, known for its overhanging houses. The Cathedral of Saint-Étienne, whose façade opens with an imposing late Gothic rose window, has one of the oldest Romanesque domes in France and a finely carved Renaissance cloister.

The birthplace of Pope John XXII, who founded a flourishing university here in the Middle Ages, Cahors is now inseparable from the wine that bears its name, a robust, full-bodied red made from the Malbec grape on the limestone slopes above the valley, whose reputation dates back to Roman times.

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