Rocamadour

It is truly amazing how people built homes, castles, and full on TOWNS directly on the cliffsides.  Back in the 1100's when this town was being established by massive pilgramages of thousands of people to come and  worship in this church, towns were being attatcked and overtaken on a regular basis.

It seems the popular thing to do was build on the cliff face so if anyone was trying to approach they would be seen before hand.

Without our modern day engineering available, it is beyond me how they ever accomplished the building they did then.

This town is just stunning, and very small, and in it there are 7 churches, if you can believe that. 

I had to get up VERY early in the morning to get a picture of the streets in this town without crowds of people there wandering.  We are finding many more tourists everywhere we go than we ever have. :(

Of all the pictures I have taken on this trip so far,

I am up to about 800, (its ok, you can laugh)

this is one of my favorites...