Lalinde

Before being founded as the first English bastide in the Perigord, Lalinde was, from as far back as the Gallo-Roman period, an important fishing village and port for the gabarres , or flat-bottomed wooden boats -- which are still very much part of the daily activity on the Dordogne river, as well as a resting place for the thousands of pilgrims that travelled through this area -- the cross on the square, dating from 1351, stands as reminder of the time of Pope Clement VI, who attracted more than one million pilgrims to Rome.