St. Martin de Vers in the Autumn

Saint-Martin-de-Vers, located in the Vers Valley, was founded around 1000 AD and centered around a fortified Romanesque church that was rebuilt after the Hundred Years' War.

Incidentally, unlike in "proper" French, the final s in Vers is pronounced - vairss. Like many place names in the region, it's derived from the old Occitane language, which still is spoken some in the area. Similarly, the t in Lot is pronounced; the word comes out sounding something like lutt.

The population of the commune is listed at 108, but that seems a little optimistic.

There are a great many hiking paths in the area, taking you to other tiny old villages, prehistoric dolmens, the ruins of a Gallo-Roman encampment and the remains of a Roman aqueduct that used to supply the baths in Cahors and begins in the Vers valley, just one Km from Le Moulin de Roumégas..

Mention of the aqueduct can be found in this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_of_Cahors.

A little further afield (half hour to one hour drive) are the popular tourist sites of Rocamadour, St-Circ-Lapopie, Pech Merle cave (one of the best visitable prehistoric caves in France) and the Cahors vineyards, noted for their intense red wine ("the Black Wine of Cahors").

For further information, some of it a bit 'off the wall', about the immediate area and the Lot Department, try these links:

www.culturevulture.net/Destinations/Lot.htm

www.crossculturedtraveler.com/Archives/Mar2003/The_Lot.htm

www.letour.fr/2007/TDF/COURSE/us/guide_touristique_1800.html