Nérac, in the Lot et Garonne
Nérac, in the Lot et Garonne, is a lively town of around
7000, and boasts a very good Sunday market as well as the delightful
Baise
river, that has a number of quaint and welcoming restaurants.
The town was a Gascony humanistic centre creating the ideology
that became the reformation. It was at the chateau - all that
remains
is a Renaissance gallery with the twisted columns, that Marguerite
d'Angouleme wrote Heptaméron which is a variation of Boccacio's Décaméron.
Even the writer George Sand lived here!
The Baise has been used
for transportation since the 13th century - take one of the
tourist cruises to enjoy the beauties of the area.
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photos from a previous week
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