Travel Guide Montlauzun

Montlauzun, overlooking the Tartuguié and Lendou valleys, is located 7 km from Lauzerte, on the via Podiensis of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Its name comes from the Latin montem , meaning a high place. Lauzun would be linked to Laucus and donum and would refer to the presence of a fortress; for some, this hypothesis is supported by the existence of a fortification that would have been erected on the hillock crossing the ridge road from Cahors to Lauzerte... For those who are nostalgic, the discovery of the village can be accompanied by Jacques Tardieu's book "La colline aux genièvres" (The hill with juniper trees), which relates the life of the place in the early 1960s.