Personal guided tours of S.W. France

A touring programme can be designed around your interests:
* Paleolithic art
* 'bastide' villages
* Toulouse Lautrec museum
* medieval and Renaissance castles
* Romanesque architecture and sculpture e.g. Moissac and Conques
* pilgrim city of Rocamadour
* Cahors vineyards
* street markets.

Your base is Atelier de la Rose with B & B accommodation in an independent guest wing of your guide's home.

This is a personal and flexible service available even for one person.

Sally Gaucheron, art and design historian and tour guide, has been living and working in the region since 1991. Sally not only ensure that you find the key sites during your stay, but also those fascinating and forgotten corners that the casual tourist usually never comes across.

Cost depends on how long you wish to stay and how much you want to see. A suggestion of key sites is available on the web site www.french-rose.com.

A SAMPLE PRICE & PROGRAMME:
For those who would like an introduction to the region, lasting 5 days (6 nights), the cost is 695 euros for a couple (347.50 euros each).

What is included:
> B & B accommodation in a double-bedded room for 6 nights;
> 5 days touring
> entry fees to sites
> 1 dinner for two at Atelier de la Rose
> transport to sites.

What is not included:
> your journey to SW France.
> transfer to/from a train station or airport;
> lunches and dinners (other than the one stipulated above).

SUGGESTED PROGRAMME:
Cahors, the Valentré bridge & vineyard;
Bonaguil Castle;
Puy l'Eveque and the Seven Deadly Sins of Martignac;
Rocamadour and its nearby 13th century fortified mill.
Pech Merle and St. Cirq Lapopie.

Freda White in her book,"Three Rivers of France", made this appeal:

"...to lovers of beauty, to lovers of history, to those whom the French call people of cultivation, this land has everything to offer. Let them come here, and beauty and history will fill their minds as water fills a spring."

The region is famous for its Cahors (malbec) wines and duck products such as 'magret de canard'. It is also renown for its wealth of Paleolithic and medieval sites, its picturesque hilltop villages and its unspoiled and varied landscape.

We are half way between Bordeaux and Toulouse. These two cities have international airports, as does Bergerac. The nearest large towns are Gourdon (train station), Cahors (train station) and Villeneuve-sur-Lot.

Please see the "Access" page of our web site www.french-rose.com for more details about travel.