Montjoi

Montjoi

Montjoi is a bastide perched on a rocky spur above the green valley of the Séoune, on the borders of the Quercy and the Agenais. Its Occitan name, montjòia, denotes a block of stone serving as a boundary marker or consecrating a memory. Wikipedia presents it as "a medieval town founded in the 13th century by Alphonse of Poitiers", and the list of bastides gives the year 1255, which makes it one of the earliest foundations of the count of Toulouse in the region, before Castelsagrat or Dunes. The village has kept its half-timbered dwellings, its houses of white Quercy stone and red Midi brick, and its flower-lined lanes; a path goes round it, and an orientation table opens onto the panorama. The texts report no precise episode of the Hundred Years' War or of the Wars of Religion. With 171 inhabitants, it is one of the smallest communes in the department.

Getting there : Free access to the village; circular path and orientation table.

Opening times and access details are given as a guide only: check before you set out.

Ambient sound