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May 23, 2008
Rocamadour 460240 46500
Lot Midi-Pyrénées
44.799 1.618 220 m

sanctuary of Xe XIe XIIIe XIXe centuries.

In the City of Rocamadour on bank of the valley of Alzou, at foot of the castle and ramparts dominating the site, of XIVe XIXe centuries.

Before Xe century, a primitive sanctuary city in 1105, dedicated to the Virgin preceded the current sanctuary.
This place became after the discovery of the body of Saint-Amadour in 1166 a place of pilgrimage for all Christendom, like Saint-Jacques de Compostelle.
After the destruction and plunderings until XVIe century and a certain lapse of memory at the XVIIe XVIIIe centuries, the sanctuary and its church Saint-Sauveur and Saint-Amadour, the multiple chapels, the crypt, were restored at the XIXe century.

The church Saint-Saveur and the Saint-Amadour crypt, are inscits on the list of the World heritage by UNESCO under the Ways of Saint-Jacques de Compostelle in France.

Among many famous pilgrims have can quote:
Saint-Louis with his mother Blanche de Castille and her brothers Robert Alphonse and Charles came in pilgrimage in Rocamadour the first and two May, 1244.
Aliénor of Aquitaine - Henri II Plantagenêt - Jacques Cartier.


Rocamadour is a french commune, located in the department of the Lot of the Midi-Pyrenees area, populated of 614 Amadouriens, distributed on 50 km², that is to say 12 hab./km².

Its name comes from the discovered intact body of Amadour, in the middle of the sanctuary marial in 1166.
Around the sanctuaries, the city of Rocamadour is stretched on several stages and districts formerly protected by eleven strengthened doors.

My images of Rocamadour

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