Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot is a quiet market town on the Lot river, south of Bergerac in the Lot-et-Garonne department. It sits in the heart of fruit-growing country — plums, strawberries, and the famous Agen prunes all come from the surrounding orchards.
The town itself is unhurried, with a handful of small shops, a weekly Friday market, and views over the river valley from the riverside path. The medieval church of Sainte-Marie sits at the heart of the old centre, and on the edge of town the CAFI memorial tells the unexpected story of the Vietnamese community that settled here after the Indochina war.
If you are looking for the rural southwest of France without the tourist crowds of the Dordogne, this is the sort of place where you can settle in for a few days and slow down.