Rocamadour

Here's another magical corner of France.  Rocamadour in Provence. It is a bit crowded with tourists so you need to pick your time to go there carefully.

Rocamadour's setting is hard to beat – it is perched on a steep hillside above a river.  And it has been a place of pilgrimage for centuries.  Pilgrims would go up the 216 steps from the main street to the chapel on their knees – and you can see where all those knees have worn the steps down.

Nowadays you can get to the top in a lift – which doesn't seem to be right some how.

About 600 people live in the village but it has over a million visitors each year!

About a 20 minute drive from Rocamadour are the Caves at Padirac – another must see. Pre-historic cave paintings.