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Extract from the Martel Travel Guides:
About 15km east of Souillac and set back even further from the river,
MARTEL
is a minor medieval masterpiece, built in a pale, almost white, stone, offset by warm reddish-brown roofs, yet it suffers none of the crowds endured by the likes of Sarlat. Another Turenne-administered town, its heyday came during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when the viscounts established a court of appeal here.
The main square,
place des Consuls
, is mostly taken up by the large eighteenth-century covered
halles
, but on every side there are reminders of the town's illustrious past, most not...
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