Lalbenque: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Cuisine

The wholesale truffle market in Lalbenque takes place every Tuesday from December to March. From 1:30 p.m., the truffle market offers a truffle tasting beneath the town hall’s market hall with a participating food-service establishment that is a member of the SRG, as well as a wine tasting with a winegrower.

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Events

The Truffle Festival in Lalbenque takes place every year on the last weekend of January and includes gastronomic meals, truffle-hunting competitions, conferences, demonstrations, discovery walks and exhibitions.

The huge truffle omelette event in Lalbenque has been held on the last Tuesday evening in July for more than ten years. Every year, more than 600 guests gather to enjoy the omelette with regional cheese, pastries, wine and melon.

Culture and History

The Church of Saint-Quirin was completely rebuilt in the Gothic style at the end of the 15th century. It has a broad nave with six rib-vaulted chapels and a five-sided choir supported by buttresses. It also houses a remarkable altarpiece and 17th-century woodwork from the Carthusian monastery of Cahors. The fortifications of the Church of Saint-Quirin appear to have been built at the same time as the reconstruction, making the church one of the defensive elements of Lalbenque’s town walls.

The Caselle de Nouel was built around 1850 and, at 5.45 metres high, is the tallest caselle in the region. With its enclosure, it served on the Causse to shelter the flock during storms or to gather it for care and counting; around 30 sheep and lambs could be assembled there.

Nature and Trails

An easy 10.8 km hike combines geology and rural architecture. It passes among prehistoric dolmens, historic dry-stone walls, centuries-old oak trees and fragrant truffle plantations, as well as well-preserved gariottes and caselles, castles and the Fontaine de La Rouquette.

Other destinations: Esclauzels, Saint-Sulpice, Goujounac, Padirac, Uzech, Saint-Pantaléon, Le Bouyssou, Rueyres.

For the overview of the wider travel region: Lot.