Camping La Garrigue

The highlight around the site is undoubtedly Loubressac, a colourful medieval town heaped with acclaim for its flowers as well as its views and old houses. Start off in the middle of the town for a potter around its narrow streets and honey-coloured houses, before a picnic next to the castle and its magnif valley and river views. Within a short drive there's also Gramat (15 kilometres), the medieval town that's now home to the Gramat Animal Park, and Rocamadour (22 kilometres), one of the most visited places in all of France (around a million people come here every year, so if you're going, get there early). Carennac, Autoire, Curemonte and Turenne are all within 35 kilometres. Another deeply popular place in France – and the most-visited cave system in the country – is 10 kilometres away at the Padirac cave or Gouffre de Padirac, delving almost 100 metres into the rocky ground. If you're sticking to an active hol, Padirac is in the nearby Causses du Quercy Natural Regional Park: try hiking, horse riding, canoeing and kayaking, climbing, diving, abseiling, paragliding...