Rocamadour is located in the Lot department in the region of Occitanie.
The city is built on a rock in the middle of the Causse de Gramat, a vast limestone plateau and part of the Causses du Quercy.
Rocamadour has attracted visitors for its setting in a gorge above a tributary of the River Dordogne and especially for its historical monuments and its sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The castle of Rocamadour is bbuilt in the 13th century.
Now the residence of the chaplains, the 14th-century ramparts are a reminder that the “castle” was a key part of Rocamadour’s defensive system in the Middle Ages.
The garden of the castle.
Grotto of the Holy Sepulchre.
Between the cross at the top of the cliff overlooking Rocamadour and the Sanctuary is a winding path with the Stations of the Cross all along it.
Station of the Cross.
Station of the Cross.
The Notre-Dame chapel.
At the right :
Chapels of the Saint-Michel and Saint-Louis.
Tour porche Saint Michel.
Wallpainting ‘ Annonciation’.
The Notre-Dame de Rocamadour chapel is one of the 7 chapels that make up the Religious City. It is located next to the Basilica of Saint-Sauveur in the sanctuary.
Basilica Saint Saveur’
The Notre-Dame chapel is the heart of the Rocamadour pilgrimage. For almost a thousand years, pilgrims from all over the world have come here to meet the Virgin Mary.
The chapel Saint Louis
Glass windows in the chapel Saint-Blaise – chapel of the Divine Miséricorde.
Chapel of Saint Jean Baptiste.
Transformed into a baptistery in the 19th century, it still houses the tomb of Jean de Vallon, knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.
Basilica Saint Saveur.
Chapel Sainte Anne.
The statue of the Black Virgin.
The Black Virgin is in the Basilica of the Notre-Dame.
The bell tower of the Notre-Dame chapel.
Basilica Saint Saveur. View outside
Chapel of Saint-Jean-Baptiste.
Basilique de saint sauveur.
Chapel of the Hospitalet.
The village.
The village.
The village.
The village.
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