View Of Rocamadour A Medieval Village In The Dordogne, France Stock Photography

Rocamadour, the vertical village is bBuilt into the cliffside on successive levels, 120 metres in length, it clings high above a through which flows the Alzou. Its houses, roofs and churches seem to be part of the rock itself. As early as the Middle Ages, Rocamadour excited people`s admiration. In the 12th C., pilgrims crossed the whole of Europe to come and pray here. The village housed the relics of Saint-Amadour a famous hermit who sought solitude in Rocamadour. It was also the much-venerated sanctuary of the Black Virgin.