How the Clooneys seduced their new French neighbours...

Recently hailed as 'the most beautiful village in ', there is certainly much to recommend Cotignac.

Historic and picturesque, its narrow streets shelter in the shade of a huge limestone cliff, where troglodyte caves are linked by a secret passage to a Saracen tower.

A medieval boom town, during this period there were visions of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus, a hat-trick which made it a major place of pilgrimage — and pilgrims still come today.

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