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Meyssac markets take place every Tuesday and Friday morning. Fairs, larger markets, are held on the 2nd and 4th Friday morning of each month. In addition, an exclusively food market takes place every Sunday morning in July and August.

Wednesday and Saturday morning, market gardeners, breeders and itinerant vendors offer you their local products and sometimes even from foreign cultures.

Every Tuesday, Thursday and especially Saturday mornings. From 7.30 am, Place du 14 Juillet and under the Halle Georges Brassens for the food market.

To visit Collonges, we invite you to take the time… Stroll through the medieval streets and admire the architecture of this red city. Several possibilities are offered to you to appreciate Collonges, its history and its heritage: Guided tours (in July and August) and visit plan.

The village of Curemonte is built on a ridge line overlooking the Sourdoire and Maumont valleys. The existence of Curemonte is attested from 860. It was in the 11th century that the village took off, passing into the movement of the viscounts of Turenne.

Turenne is a commune in the Corrèze department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France. It is characterized by its height and its unique position on top of a cliff. It is one of the most beautiful villages in France. It also has a well-known castle.

Rocamadour is a small village on the edge of a cliff, in the south of central France. It is known for its Religious City, a complex of religious buildings accessible by the Grand Staircase. Among these buildings are the Notre-Dame chapel, with its statue of the Black Madonna, and the Saint-Sauveur basilica, of Romanesque-Gothic architecture. The Monkey Forest, a park where macaques roam freely, is located to the northeast. The Rocher des Aigles ornithological park is to the west.

The Padirac chasm is the monumental entrance to a natural cavity, located in the Lot in France, with a dimension of approximately 35 meters in diameter. At the bottom of this chasm, 103 meters deep, flows an underground river that runs through part of a large network of more than 55 kilometers of development.

The Dordogne is a French river which originates on the slopes of the Puy de Sancy, in the chain of the Dore mountains, by the meeting of two torrents, the Dore and the Dogne.

The geological rift of Meyssac marks the concrete break between the sandstone and the limestone, it is the junction of the last sandstone pillars of the central massif, formed more than 200 million years ago and the limestone sediments of the Jurassic deposited a few tens of millions of years later.

It was on August 3, 1908, that the Bouyssonie abbots found the first almost complete skeleton of a Neanderthal man, as well as his burial in the small village of La Chapelle-aux-Saints. This discovery is a world-famous reference in prehistory and an essential milestone in the history of humanity.

It was on August 3, 1908, that the Bouyssonie abbots found the first almost complete skeleton of a Neanderthal man, as well as his burial in the small village of La Chapelle-aux-Saints. This discovery is a world-famous reference in prehistory and an essential milestone in the history of humanity.

It was on August 3, 1908, that the Bouyssonie abbots found the first almost complete skeleton of a Neanderthal man, as well as his burial in the small village of La Chapelle-aux-Saints. This discovery is a world-famous reference in prehistory and an essential milestone in the history of humanity.