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Souillac
Place Saint-Martin and the eponymous room
Information
Country	France
Region	Lot
Watercourse	Dordogne, Borreze
Altitude	Between 80 and314 m
Area	25,92 km²
Population	3 243 hab. (1er january 2018)
Density	125,12 inhab./km²
Nice	Souillagais
Postal code	46200
Telephone prefix	33 5 65
Spindle	UTC 01:00, UTC 02:00
Location
44 ° 54 ′ 58 ″ N 1 ° 28 ′ 8 ″ E
Official site
Touristic site
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Souillac is a municipality of Lot located in the southwest of the France. It is located along the Dordogne and bears the nickname of "city of 7 viaducts".

Understand

Tourist information

• 

  The apse of the abbey
  44.894311.479131 Dordogne Valley Tourist Office Boulevard Louis Jean Malvy,   33 5 65 332200  Mon.- sat. : 10 h - 12 h 30 and14 h - 18 h. –  (last update Dec. 2019)

To go

By plane

• 45.03971.48551 Brive-Dordogne Valley Airport (IATA : BVE, ICAO: LFSL, Brive-Souillac Airport) (in Nespouls and Cressensac, 20 km north of Souillac) (last update August 2018)

Airline company	Destinations
Air France operated by HOP!	ORY Paris-Orly In Season : AJA Ajaccio, Lilies Lyon-Saint-Exupéry
Ryanair	OPO Porto-F. Sá-Carneiro In Season : STN London-Stansted

last update: dec. 2019

By train

Railway stations	Line	Connection with other transport
44.902111.466612 Souillac train station Avenue Jean Jaures building : Mon.- Game. : 4 h - 22 h, Fri.- Sun. : 4 h - 1 h 20. – Ticket counters, no ticket vending machine. Free car park. No bicycle parking (last update Dec. 2019)	Night intercity (only weekends and holidays) – Paris-Austerlitz ↔ Portbou Where Cerberus (last update Dec. 2019) Intercity  – Paris-Austerlitz ↔ Toulouse-Matabiau Where Cahors (last update Dec. 2019) TER Occitanie  – Brive-la-Gaillarde ↔ Toulouse-Matabiau (last update Dec. 2019)	Bus  – Transpérigord no6 “Gare SNCF - Souillac” stop. (last update Dec. 2019) Taxi  – no. (last update Dec. 2019)

By car

By highway A20 and the 44.89631.50153 exit  55 Souillac then by the departmental road D804

To see

• 44.893891.477311 Abbey of Sainte-Marie Morlet Street – It was built in XII^e century by Benedictine monks then restored in XVII^e century. It is a Romano-Byzantine style abbey which has the particularity of having domes, something quite rare in France. The vault is 21 meters high. (last update Dec. 2019)
• 44.893641.47692 Automaton Museum Alain Chastagnol esplanade,   33 5 65 370707  closed until March 31, 2020 included. (last update Dec. 2019)
• 44.894231.478763 Saint-Martin room Saint-Martin square – Old church disused in 1829, it served, in turn, as town hall, fire station and finally, simultaneously, exhibition hall and tourist office. It has a tower called a belfry. (last update Dec. 2019)
• 44.89461.477824 Hall place Doussot – Built from 1832 to 1836, it stands near the Salle Saint-Martin. (last update Dec. 2019)
• 44.88291.48545 Louis Vicat Bridge departmental road D820 – Built by Louis Vicat under the orders of Napoleon I^er, it is the first bridge built with artificial cement. It crosses the Dordogne. (last update Dec. 2019)
• 44.90151.47296 Borrèze Viaduct (visible from rue de Borrèze or rue de Timbergues) – A railway bridge built between 1881 and 1885 in freestone, it is 571 meters long and 32 meters high. It overlooks the Borrèze. (last update Dec. 2019)

Do

• Take a walk near the banks of the Dordogne.
• Spend an afternoon at the Quercyland water park.
• Taste the old plum at the dedicated museum.

Eat

The city has a specialty: the old plum, obtained by distilling small Swiss plums of the “Löhrpflaumen” variety.

The specialties of Quercy are:

• lamb from Quercy,
• truffle,
• Rocamadour, cheese resembling cabécou.

Have a drink / Go out

Housing

Communicate

Manage the day-to-day

Around

• 45.05411.58251 Turenne  – Caesar tower and clock tower  (last update Feb. 2018)