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.
Wow! So gorgeous. Those caves look amazing!
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