The Vezere River (where our house is and the valley with Lascaux and many other caves & castles) flows into the Dordogne River at the village of Lemeuil (very pretty!). The Dordogne then flows down into the Garonne (where the Dordogne is nearly 3km wide!) and they form the huge Gironde delta at Bordeaux. We took a Gabarre (flat bottom boat used in the previous few centuries for bringing salt, etc., upriver from Bordeaux) from Roque Gageac down as far as the bridge to Castnaud. It is a beautiful stretch of river with medieval to renaissance castles lining the river. I continue to be amazed visiting this area, by the sheer volume of historic properties, for lack of a better term. Every little town seems to have an amazing chateau or church, ruins of a castle, fabulous caves, much of which is not mentioned on any maps or guidebooks, but which are just the fabric of the area. I think I need to spend more time here exploring and studying the history of this region ; ) .
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