Camping du Lac du Causse

Brive-la-Gaillarde and its colourful market place, named after famous French singer Georges Brassens, are 25 minutes' drive away. The town's old quarters are lined with shops, restaurants and walking streets; also take time to see the Labenche Museum, with its regular exhibitions and 17 galleries of art, crafts, natural history and archaeology. Other nearby spots to sightsee at include the Jardins de Colette with their five hectares of flowers, vegetables and trees (20 minutes); the quarry Les Pans de Travassac (30 minutes); splendid Padirac Chasm (50 minutes) and the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lascaux Cave, famed for its Paleolithic cave paintings (40 minutes). Also have a look at the distillery at Denoix and and La Chocolaterie at Lamy (both 20 minutes) and the medieval town of Sarlat (50 minutes), a few kilometres north of the Dordogne and with winding medieval streets, Place de la Liberté and its cathedral. Within a 30-45 minute drive are the pretty villages of Turenne, Collonges la Rouge, Curemonte and Saint Robert.