Gourdon

Towns and Villages - by Provence Beyond

Villages > Gourdon      

Nearby:  | Beaumat 18 km | Cahors 44 km | Cénac-et-Saint-Julien 8 km | Frayssinet 14 km | Lamothe-Cassel 20 km | Montamel 21 km | Rocamadour 30 km | La Roque-Gageac 28 km | Saint Germain-du-Bel-Air 17 km | Salignac-Eyvigues 32 km | Sarlat-la-Canéda 25 km | Uzech 21 km |

Below: | Hiking | Lodging Hotels |

The main street is a "ring road" that circles the inner Medieval village, and most of the shops and stores are along this main street. There are shops for just about everything here, including one of our favorite types: an ancient, small hardware-household shop that has absolutely everything.

There are lots of terrace cafés along the main drag, so sitting in the shade and watching the world go buy is an easy option here.

The old town streets are very interesting, well worth wandering through, examining ancient architecture, carved wooden doorways, or heading up to the top for the great view.

Hiking

Maps:

IGN (1/25,000) #2037 E "Gourdon"

For walkers/hikers, the Office de Tourisme had eight interesting loop-walks based in eight different villages of the area. Each walk is presented on a color brochure of heavy paper, with photo, map, and instructions. All free.

The collection we obtained included hikes centered on the little villages of Concorès, Gordon - St Clair, Lamothe-Cassel, Montamel, St Chamarand, St Germain-du-Bel-Air (Sentier du Cayret) and Uzech.
Other hiking brochures unavailable at that moment were for Payrignac, Peyrilles, St St Germain-du-Bel-Air (Sentier de Boissole) and Soucirac.

These are all easy half-day hikes (or less) and we went on a few of them. All were very interesting, following lovely forest paths and sometimes little roads through farming country. All were mostly shady, with good trail surfaces (packed dirt, for example, rather that stones). The trails we found to be consistently well marked, to the point where the hiking brochures were for interest only.

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