ニコル周辺のアトラクション＆必見スポット - トップ20

Very pleasant and shady and not too crowded.

The village of Damazan has retained all its charm with its central square and half-timbered houses. It's the perfect place to park your bike, enjoy a coffee in the shade, and soak up the atmosphere of the southwest.

Very pleasant route, mostly asphalted in the shade and at the water's edge of course. However, the Lot-et-Garonne part of this route is more bumpy, the roots lift the tar and make bumps that are sometimes quite significant, so don't be surprised. Another negative point, it is sometimes difficult to find free access water taps, even in the nautical stops you will most of the time have to go and ask for water in the bars or restaurants along the track, or leave the track to go directly to the village cemeteries.

An impression of a suspension bridge along a water channel. A must if you are cycling in the area!

Peaceful route by the water, in the shade under the trees 🌳

To see: the central square, with a quadrilateral plan, with corner and half-timbered houses, made of local oak and chestnut and cob mixing earth and hay. Facades repainted and paving recently restored. The Notre Dame church, at the northeast corner of the city, has a Gothic foundation, since the original building was burned by Protestants in the 16th century. It is made up of a main nave and two side aisles, onto which arcades form chapels. The 9 stained glass windows of the side aisles are the work of the renowned Bordeaux master glassmaker Joseph Villiet, executed in 1853, and those of the apse made by Jacques Leuzy, master glassmaker of Moissac, in 1950.

The history of Clairac is inseparable from that of its Benedictine abbey, which was internationally renowned in the Middle Ages. The abbey, as well as the town which was formed around its walls, reached their peak in the 12th and 13th centuries. There were then 120 monks who worked both in the fields and as copyists of manuscripts. The abbot of Clairac was also the lord of the village and commanded two bastides, five priories and around fifty parishes. The monks also owned two mills on the Lot. The income generated by the abbey was then considerable. But the most important heritage is unexpected: the plum tree of Damascus, brought back from the crusades, was in fact "enté", that is to say grafted, by them for the 1st time. They also discovered the sun-drying process, inventing the Ente plum and the Agen prune in one fell swoop!

Scary 🤣😅