Le Temple-Sur-Lot: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes
The S.M.S.P. Conservatory displays more than 90 firefighting vehicles of different ages and types, including genuine museum pieces.
For their stay in Le Temple-sur-Lot, some travellers may wish to rent a holiday apartment.
Culture
The Templar Commandery is arranged around a fortified enclosure with a corner tower and a spiral staircase. Guided tours of the site are available with the Raconteurs de Pays; the Le Temple-sur-Lot tourist office provides information about them.
The S.M.S.P. Conservatory can be visited by prior appointment.
The Latour-Marliac Cabinet of Curiosities opens the botanist's former home and garden to the public and offers an unusual introductory tour there.
Gardens and Nature
Latour-Marliac has been awarded Jardin Remarquable status, is considered the world's oldest water-lily nursery, and houses the National Collection of the Nymphaea genus.
The Latour-Marliac garden covers a 2.5-hectare park with an exotic greenhouse, a bamboo grove, water basins and a Japanese bridge.
The painter Claude Monet came to Latour-Marliac at the end of the 19th century to collect water lilies there.
The Chemin Capélata is designed as a natural recreational area; visitors can take a walk along the Négrésille there.
Tours and Activities
A five-kilometre family hiking trail leads from the Chapelle Saint-Caprais to the Chapelle Saint-Jean de Balerne.
In Le Temple-sur-Lot, fishing is possible in the Lot, the Négrésille and Lac des Quatre Communes; fishing permits and information are available from the Point Presse or the Société de pêche.
La Base du Temple has an indoor and an outdoor pool and offers group AquaGym and AquaFitness classes all year round.
Along the themed Circuit No. 429, information panels explain the natural and architectural heritage around Le Temple-sur-Lot, including half-timbered and earthen houses, washhouses and the Nénuphars site at Latour-Marliac.
Le jardin insolite de Papy Paulo offers a guided tour of an unusual kitchen garden with a herb-drying shed, a chicken coop, a herb garden, beehives and a pond.
Cycling Routes
The Voie Verte between Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot and Le Temple-sur-Lot follows the route of a former railway line that connected Villeneuve-sur-Lot with Tonneins.
At the end of the Voie Verte in Le Temple-sur-Lot, the D911 is crossed at a designated crossing point, and a quiet connecting road leads to the town hall, the tourist office and the town centre.
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