Abandoned Medieval French Country House by Silva Wischeropp

About "Abandoned Medieval French Country House"

by Silva Wischeropp

About the artwork

This photographic image shows an abandoned and forgotten medieval country house in a small village in the southwest of France.
The photo was taken during my summer holiday on a photo tour in August 2017 with the Nikon camera.

The Département du Lot [lɔt] is the French department with the ordinal number 46. It is located in the south of the country in the Occitanie region and was named after the Lot River, a tributary of the Garonne.
The Lot department borders the departments of Corrèze, Cantal, Aveyron, Tarn-et-Garonne, Lot-et-Garonne and Dordogne. The Lot river crosses the department from east to west with numerous meanders, the narrowest of which is found in the village of Luzech with a width of around 200 m, which can be viewed impressively from numerous vantage points.
In the north of the département, the Dordogne also cuts through the area. Between the two major rivers in the eastern part of the département are the Causses, limestone plateaus that are strongly characterised by karst processes.
Tourism is an important economic sector.

The most valuable agricultural product of the region is the truffle, which finds ideal conditions in the oak forests of the Causse.
Winegrowing in the lower valley of the Lot also plays an important role again.
Centuries ago, the "Black Wine" of Cahors was already famous among nobles all over Europe up to the Russian Tsar - not least because of its dark red to black colour, which made it the darkest red wine on earth.