Path Bergerac Rocamadour ANG

180km between Dordogne and Lot Man has always travelled for many and various reasons, commerce and pilgrimage important among them. Some of the routes, such as El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, are famous, but many more have long since been forgotten... More

180km between Dordogne and Lot Man has always travelled for many and various reasons, commerce and pilgrimage important among them. Some of the routes, such as El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, are famous, but many more have long since been forgotten and the Dordogneis crisscrossed with just such paths. Our ancestors thought nothing of walking from Bergerac to Rocamadour, through the hills and valleys of the Dordogne, in search of thecomfort to be found in religious sanctuaries like Cadouin Abbey, with its winding-sheetrelic or Rocamadour and its Black Virgin. This “cami romiou” is intended to keep alive the memory of the “Blue Penitents” of Périgueux who, to save their town from the encroaching plague, took the path of the sanctuary in the 17th century, not to mention the memory of the hundreds of anonymouspeople who, throughout the centuries, have journeyed over the green hills of the Dordognebefore descending the arid Causses of the Ouysse Valley to Rocamadour. Less