Blog: Tourism news from the region

Every last weekend in September, the Rocamadour sky is decked out in a multitude of colours as the summer tourist season draws to a close with a wealth of cultural events.

Every year, the "Montgolfiades de Rocamadour" take place in the skies above Rocamadour, attracting huge crowds of visitors from far and wide.

At the Moulin du Boisset, we're gourmets, which is why our breakfasts are full of pastries, cakes and home-made specialities that we always take pleasure in making for our guests.

Did you know that our region has often attracted many directors to shoot part or all of a film in a natural setting? I can tell you that Cahors has been used as a location for films such as "Un amour de sorcière" by René Manzor, starring Jean Reno and Vanessa Paradis, and "Jeanne d'Arc" by Luc Besson, starring Milla Jovovich. Actress Juliette Binoche has once filmed in the Lot. It was for André Téchiné's film "Alice et Martin" (1998), with Mathieu Amalric and Roshdy Zem.

Closer to the Moulin du Boisset, in our little commune of Saint-Denis-Lès-Martel, scenes from a superb film were shot. In 2003, Jean Becker filmed parts of his "Effroyables jardins" around the station, with a dream cast including Jacques Villeret, André Dussolier, Thierry Lhermitte , Benoit Magimel, Isabelle Candelier, Suzanne Flon... Synopsis: Lucien, a fourteen-year-old teenager, doesn't understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself in an amateur clown act. One day, André, his father's best friend, reveals the origin of this vocation...

Did you know that just 10 minutes from the Moulin du Boisset, you can board a time machine? At the old station in Martel, you can take the Train Touristique du Haut Quercy and take a fantastic trip back to the early 20th century, to the heroic days of steam rail travel.

The karstic landscapes that characterise our region have created places of unimaginable splendour. There's what's visible - the meandering rivers, the visible traces of water flowing over the cliffs and resurgences - but the most impressive thing is what you can't see: what's underground. Everywhere it is tortured by the erosion that over the millennia has forged galleries, caves and chasms. It's an immense Gruyère explored, in tiny parts, by courageous speleologists, who offer you a grandiose and unique spectacle in the places where they have been exploited.

Today, on an unseasonably warm and sunny February day, we decided to move a little further away from the Moulin. The Lot department is criss-crossed by 2 rivers, the Dordogne to the north, which we know well as it flows just 5 minutes from our house, and the Lot to the south, which we know much less about, flowing through the department's prefecture, Cahors. So we headed south to Bouziès, just over an hour's drive away, which would be the starting point for our walk. The road is winding, but passes through the superb Causse landscapes that characterise the karstic relief typical of our region, with exposed limestone rocks, groves of oak trees and low stone walls demarcating the plots.