
Suggested itinerary for walking from Martel to Rocamadour Villages along the long-distance walking path from Martel to Rocamadour offer accommodation at intervals to suit most walkers. From Martel, continue clockwise around to Biars-sur-Cère to catch the train back out. Bus and taxi connections to Bretenoux are available from here.įollow the walking loop clockwise as listed, from Bretenoux to Rocamadour, then backtrack to Montvalent and follow the GR 46 to Martel. Trains on the Brive-la-Gaillarde to Aurillac line stop at Biars-sur-Cère, which is two kilometres (one mile) from Bretenoux. Alternatively, Martel is a twenty-kilometre (twelve-mile) walk from Rocamadour, reached by backtracking to Montvalent and continuing along the GR 46 to Martel. If you need to return to Martel, the same train will return you to Saint-Denis-près-Martel. The Rocamadour-Padirac train station is three kilometres (two miles) away and from here you can take a train on to Figeac and then to anywhere in France. Bus connections to Martel are available from here.įollow the walking loop clockwise as listed, from Martel to Rocamadour.

Trains on both the Brive-la-Gaillarde to Figeac and Brive-la-Gaillarde to Aurillac lines stop at Saint-Denis-près-Martel, seven kilometres (five miles) from Martel. There are couple of ways to approach this walk, with train access close to Martel and Rocamadour and also at Biars-sur-Cère between Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne and Bretenoux.

Map of the walking path from Martel to Rocamadour My suggested itinerary leaves plenty of time to lean against the stone walls of an ancient chapel and ponder the hands that built them a thousand years earlier to look out through the observation slits in a medieval tower and imagine invading armies charging up the hill… Where is it in France? View from the watch tower of Château de Castelnau-Bretenoux
