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  • Highlights of the region include the fairytale hilltop village of Rocamadour, the Millau Viaduct the world's highest vehicular bridge and the Gorges du Tarn -- a dramatic limestone gorge with hairpin turns and steep descents.

    In Pictures: Amazing Motorcycle Trips Terry Ward 2010

  • Try that Limburger, chèvre, Rocamadour or Gouda, and remember LeMay's contention that all cheese really means to please.

    Three books about food 2010

  • It forms the centrepiece of an impeccable disc that includes Mass in G, Un Soir de neige and the Litanies à la Vierge noire, inspired by a pilgrimage to the black virgin of Rocamadour.

    Francis Poulenc: Figure Humaine/Choral Works 2010

  • Local folklore claims Durendal still exists, preserved in Rocamadour, France.

    On homosexual marriage de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Local folklore claims Durendal still exists, preserved in Rocamadour, France.

    Archive 2008-06-15 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Myth has it that it still exists in the wall of a castle in Rocamadour, France.

    Archive 2008-01-27 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Myth has it that it still exists in the wall of a castle in Rocamadour, France.

    The Mystery of Durandal de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Langland takes them up, lets them fall, and takes them up again; he never wearies of this cruel sport; he presents them to us now separately, and now collectively: packs of pilgrims, "eremytes on an hep," pilgrims that run to St. James's in Spain, to Rome, to Rocamadour in Guyenne, who have paid visits to every saint.

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • Rocamadour, as a result of war and revolution, had become almost deserted.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Rocamadour is indebted for its name to the founder of the ancient sanctuary, St. Amadour, who was none other than Zacheus of the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

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