Loubressac
Member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France
From its rocky prow above the Bave, the fortified village of Loubressac looks across the Dordogne valley to the Château de Castelnau-Bretenoux. You enter through a fortified gate among houses built along the line of the ramparts, and the castle was restored in the early 1900s by the playwright Henri Lavedan. In 1961 Sylvia Plath stayed in the commune and wrote 'Stars over the Dordogne'.
Highlights
- View from the château park over the Dordogne valley to Castelnau-Bretenoux
- Pont de Maday, a three-arched bridge on the pilgrim road to Rocamadour
- Dolmens around the commune, including the Dolmen d'Horaste
- Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, a listed monument since 1971
- Site of Operation Cadillac, a huge 1944 weapons drop for the Resistance
Text adapted from Wikipedia (Loubressac (FR), Loubressac (EN), Loubressac (IT)), Wikivoyage (Loubressac). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Population: 533
Things to see
Specialities of Occitania
Typical of the region rather than of this village.
- Petit pâté de NîmesBread and pasta
- Fish soup of SèteDishFish cooked with vegetables, white wine and olive oil, served with rouille croutons
- Pain paillasse de LodèveBread and pasta
- BajanaDishTraditional chestnut soup of the Cévennes
Adapted from Wikipedia (Cuisine occitane). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where to sleep
6 places to stay within 3 km
- Hotels 3
- Campsites 2
- B&Bs and guest houses 1
Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Nearby member villages
- Autoire · 2.4 km
- Carennac · 7.7 km
- Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne · 12 km
- Curemonte · 15 km
- Rocamadour · 17 km