Carennac

Carennac grew up around a Cluniac priory founded in the 11th century on a rocky terrace above the Dordogne. Its Romanesque church of Saint-Pierre has a 12th-century tympanum of Christ in majesty, and the cloister shelters a late 15th-century Entombment. Fénelon served as dean here in the 1680s, and tradition says he wrote his Adventures of Telemachus here, facing an island named Calypso.

Highlights

• The 12th-century tympanum of Saint-Pierre church
• The cloister and its late 15th-century Entombment sculpture
• The Château des Doyens, with a free exhibition on the Dordogne valley
• Calypso island, linked to Fénelon's Adventures of Telemachus
• The Gouffre de Padirac and Rocamadour, a few kilometres away

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Carennac (FR), Carennac (EN), Carennac (IT)), Wikivoyage (Carennac). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.