In Rocamadour, the soul of the stones has been exalted by music for two decades

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For twenty years now, the Rocamadour Festival has been celebrating sacred music in an exceptional setting. Here, the main stage overlooked by the cliff. François Le Guen
Led by organist Emmeran Rollin, the Rocamadour Festival celebrates music from August 15 to 26 in a site steeped in history and spirituality. For twenty years, the event has garnered loyal fans and audiences alike in an atmosphere that is both gentle and solemn.
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I subscribeIf we like to define a festival as the meeting between artists, an audience, and a place, Rocamadour ideally solves this equation. For twenty years, the musical event has taken over the medieval town of the Lot, clinging to the cliff overlooking the Alzou stream and the Gramat plateau. An evocative formula sums up the ancestral and spectacular tiering of the buildings: the houses of the lay workers on the stream, the churches of the religious clergy on the houses, the rocks on the churches, the castle of the noble knights on the rocks. And the sky above...
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