Cahors

Cahors, with 20 thousand residents,¹ is located in a u-bend of the Lot River² in the Lot Department of the Midi-Pyrénées Region of France. UNESCO notes three local items as part of a World Heritage Site honoring the pilgrimage routes in France toward Santiago de Compostela: the Saint-Étienne cathedral; the Valentré bridge and the path (Chemin du Puy) between Bach and Cahors.

External references

The Valentré Bridge at Cahors, Lot Department, Midi-Pyrénées Region, France

Footnotes

1. Figure for 2010 in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communes_in_France_with_over_20,000_inhabitants, accessed 2/9/2015.
2. The Lot flows into the Garonne, whose estuarine mouth, shared by the Dordogne, is the Gironde.