Fons: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

In Fons, the “Balade médiévale à Fons-en-Quercy” walking tour follows a 1.7-kilometre route through the village. It takes around one hour and has an elevation gain of 36 metres.

Those who choose Fons as a holiday destination may wish to rent a holiday apartment.

Trails

Fons has six local hiking trails lasting between 20 minutes and 2 hours and 30 minutes. The Calvaire can be reached via a Stations of the Cross path.

Les Alpacas de Fons offers encounters lasting 1.5 to 2 hours exclusively by appointment. Visitors can feed alpacas, compare sheep’s wool and alpaca wool, and learn the basic steps of wool processing.

Also exclusively by appointment, Les Alpacas de Fons offers walks lasting 2 to 2.5 hours along the rural paths of Fons. Afterwards, visitors can feed the alpacas and compare sheep’s wool and alpaca wool.

Another workshop offered by Les Alpacas de Fons combines feeding the alpacas with making a felted soap using selected wool colours.

Culture

The Maison des Consuls in Fons is a partially restored 13th-century building with five large pointed-arch openings.

The Judicature royale in Fons has a balcony on the first floor, from which judgements were once publicly announced.

The Church of Saint-André in Fons was mentioned in 1146 as belonging to the Abbey of Figeac.

The apse of the Church of Saint-André has a semidome vault and three windows, bearing witness to an early Romanesque structure.

The chemin de ronde in Fons, known as “Le Balat”, runs along the former town wall. On a walk, visitors can look out for the remains of the walls.

The Church of Notre-Dame-des-Artels in Fons was probably rebuilt around 1760 on the site of the former church.

The village of Fons emerged and developed around a Benedictine monastery founded in 972, which no longer exists today.

Nature

The Causses around Fons are characterised by caselles and dry-stone walls.

The “Villages et coteaux du Limargue” circuit is suitable for mountain bikes.

The “Villages et coteaux du Limargue” circuit passes through a green valley and traditional hamlets.

The greenery of the chestnut groves along the Bonhomme stream is reminiscent of the neighbouring Ségala lotois.

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