Stopped in St Léon Sur Vézère for lunch. Had a great meal at Restaurant de la Poste, where the chef was also the barkeep. Then we checked out the town's Romanesque church...
Then we went to see La Roque St-Christophe, a kilometer-long rock shelter above the River, first occupied over 50,000 years ago and later fortified...
Some of the most interesting displays were replicas of medieval construction machines...
Notice the posts and beams set into the rock. Holes for this kind of construction can be seen in rock shelters and on cliff faces throughout this region...
Cool storage niche...
A stone water basin catching water dripping from the limestone ceiling...
Reconstruction of a half-timbered wall...
We (and everyone who ever lived here) had a great view of the valley...
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