Autoire

Autoire photo gallery

Restaurants and shops: There is a hotel/restaurant, a créperie and a village store in the centre of the village.
In a nutshell: Autoire is a small picturesque village, beautifully preserved, with 800 years of history. The village rests in a valley bottom, dominated by the limestone cliffs of the Cirque d'Autoire which mark the edge of the limestone causse.

A walk around its narrow streets reveals the fountain surrounded by half-timbered houses, traditional steep roofs with dark brown tiles and elegant mansions with towers which mark the period when Autoire was known as 'le petit Versailles'. There are four chateaux built by the nobility in the 15th and 16th centuries.

From the terrace near the church there is a lovely view over the watermill of Limargue and of the cliffs to the south west towering over the village. Up near the top, after wet weather is a waterfall 100ft high. You can reach it on foot via a path up from the village. Or you can take the road up the hill out of the village to a point where you can park and walk easily to the top of the waterfall.

There is an excellent walk from Autoire to Loubressac and back.

	The chateau de Limargue in the centre of the village with the cirque d'Autoire in the background
	At the viewpoint - taking the path that leads down to the village
	The Château des Anglais (English castle), was the fastness of Bertucat d'Albret, captain of one of the notorious mercenary companies of the Hundred Years War