We had a wander around Sarlat last week and decided to get away from the main tourist areas to explore around the many back passageways and little streets, a lot of the buildings are still empty and ready for renovation but some beautiful old stone work survives dating from many centurys ago. Even what appears to be an old fireplace (below) remains a metre up a wall in a small outer courtyard area that has a wheely bin looking quite bizarre standing against such an old piece of original stone.
There are even old gas lamps in certain areas, still in working order, you can just see 6 old mantles at the top of the lamp in a circle at the centre of the reflective white disk that when lit produce the very bright light. As all our previous guests know and this years are yet to discover, there's always something to see and do in Sarlat!
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