In the south-east of the Dordogne department, in the Black Perigord, the village of Domme is bordered to the north by the Dordogne, which forms an important meander, the "cingle de Montfort". It belongs to the association "the most beautiful Villages of France". The bastide of Domme, situated on a cliff at an altitude of 210 metres, dominates the Dordogne by more than a hundred metres. It does not have the characteristic rectangular plan of a bastide, but has the unusual shape of a trapezium.Â
Rocamadour is situated in the Lot department and belongs to the tourist micro-region of the Dordogne Valley. In the heart of the Haut-Quercy, as if clinging to a powerful cliff overlooking the deep Alzou valley from 150 metres, this Marian city has been a famous place of pilgrimage since the eleventh century, and has been visited since the Middle Ages by many anonymous or famous "roumieux" (pilgrims). Rocamadour, "Citadel of Faith", is also a leading natural tourist site, one of the most visited in France with around 1.5 million visitors a year.Â