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Beautifully restored 17th century Mill House and Barn, each sleeping up to six, available separately or together. Large peaceful garden with mill stream and swimming pool

Activities at the property

3 bicycles provided at the property, table tennis (under cover), dart board, petanque and badminton, and of course swimming in the pool.

Nearby activities

Activities nearby include:

· Boules

· Canoeing,

· Cycling

· Fishing,

· Golf

· Table tennis

· River swimming

· Walking/hiking/rambling,

· Riverside activities

· Gourmet dining

· Wine tasting/wine touring

· Sightseeing.

Local shopping in Prayssac (5km) with butcher, bakers, greengrocer, cafes; and large Carrefour supermarket

Latour is in the heart of the Cahors vignobles, and within 10 kilometres there are a dozen châteaux and vineyards, Chateau de Chambord, La Berengerie, Château de Cazerac, Chateau la Coustarelle nearbys and many others. Most offer wine tasting and a great opportunity to discover the Black wines of Cahors.

There are excellent markets at Puy l’Eveque (7 km away, Tuesday), Prayssac (our local market, Friday), Cahors (Saturday) and Montcuq, 10 km away (Sunday). There are two restaurants ranging from traditional provincial French cooking to haute cuisine in easy walking distance, and others in Prayssac, Albas, Sauzet; a dozen restaurants within 10 km.

Arts flourish in the region: in the first two weeks of August Belaye (5 km. on top of the Causse overlooking the great expanse of the Lot valley) hosts its famous cello festival; also in August, Cahors is a centre for blues and jazz. Each village around holds its own festival during the summer. Each summer an English theatre company puts on Shakespeare plays in the central squares of several local Bastide towns.

The area is rich in history: the Bastide towns, built to encourage people to return to the land after decades of fighting in the 15^th century; castles, the astonishing early cave paintings of Pech Merle deep in the Quercy hills, Rocamadour, spectacularly built into the chalk hills and with falconry exhibitions and a monkey park where you can feed monkeys by hand.

There is swimming in the river Lot itself, canoeing within walking distance of the property and wonderful way-marked walking (from 5 to 30 km) and bird watching through the hills and vineyards of the region.

More pictures from nearby.