TouchScreenTravels logo

TouchScreenTravels

Our Touch, your Travels…

This is a preview of the full content of our France’s Best app.

Please consider downloading this app to support small independent publishing and because:

  • All content is designed for mobile devices and works best there.
  • Detailed in-app maps will help you find sites using your device’s GPS.
  • The app works offline (one time upgrade required on Android versions).
  • All advertising (only present on Android versions) can be removed.

The app will also allow you to:

  • Add custom locations to the app map (your hotel…).
  • Create your own list of favourites as you browse.
  • Search the entire contents using a fast and simple text-search tool.
  • Make one-click phone calls (on phones).
iOS App Store Google Play

Upper Dordogne Valley

The Dordogne in the Corrèze

The source of the Dordogne River is in the Massif Centrale on the Puy de Sancy in the Auvergne Region. It then flows south-east along the border between the Cantal and Corrèze départements, through magnificent gorges before heading east under the Pont de Chambon and via the Barrage de Chastang where the river is dammed, till it reaches the Quercy and the confluence with the river Cère just inside the Lot département.

Along the river there is much of interest from ‘les Orgues’, cliffs which resemble organ pipes, in the north, the fine suspension bridge and the massive dam mentioned above, and the charming old riverside towns of Argentat and Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne. Here and there you can catch glimpses of the heavily wooded Gorges through which the river flows.

Just north of the river is the magnificent and unmissable red stone village of Collonges-la-Rouge. Moreover, nearby is the impressive stronghold of Turenne.

Argentat

The First Navigable Port on the Dordogne

Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne

A beautiful place on the Dordogne

Collonges-la-Rouge

Village in Red

Dordogne River

The Dordogne River Valley from Mont Dore to the Gironde

Pont de Chambon

Bridge over the Dordogne

Turenne

Lording it!

Text © Paul Shawcross

Image by Photo by Paul Shawcross