Martel

Known since the 17th century as the town of seven towers, Martel began as a salt market at a crossroads of the Quercy causse and grew rich as a trading town under the viscounts of Turenne. Pale stone houses with red-brown roofs ring a cobbled square and its 18th-century market hall, where a truffle market is held each winter. Henry the Young King died here in 1183.

Highlights

• The fortified church of Saint-Maur, with its Romanesque tympanum and tall bell tower (FR)
• The Hôtel de la Raymondie, built around 1280 for the Turenne family (FR)
• Wednesday and Saturday markets under the hall, plus a winter truffle market
• The July Wool Fair, with prizes for the best fleeces
• A museum of finds from Puy d'Issolud, identified as Caesar's Uxellodunum

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