Saint-Sernin: Wine, Walking Trails and Heritage

Saint-Sernin can be explored through several specific points of interest: wines from Domaine Amblard, two walking trails with different landscape features, and the Eglise Saint-Sernin-de-Duras. There is also a picnic area with a car park and two shaded tables. Consider whether wine, landscape or architectural history is most important to your travel plans.

Wine at Domaine Amblard

Domaine Amblard produces red wine, rosé, dry Sauvignon Blanc, sweet white wine and wines made using the traditional bottle-fermentation method. Red wine and rosé refer to the colour, while dry and sweet describe the style of the white wines; the bottle-fermentation method, by contrast, refers to how the wines are made. This lets you consider a wine tasting from several perspectives rather than focusing on just one wine category. The range may change over time.

Domaine Amblard offers free wine tastings. As visitor services may change, check the current arrangements before travelling. When planning, therefore, take into account both the wine tasting and the changing selection.

Walking trails with different landscape features

The “Saint-Sernin-de-Duras, la balade de Castelgaillard” circular trail offers views of Lac de Castelgaillard. It is marked in yellow and signposted with painted trail markers. As markers may change during trail maintenance, also look out for the trail markers on site to help you navigate. The “Saint-Sernin-de-Duras, vers le domaine d'Amblard” circular trail runs along the St-Front forest and through the vineyards of Domaine d'Amblard. Domaine Amblard brings together two themes here: it produces the wines mentioned above, and one circular trail passes through its vineyards. So you will encounter the name not only in connection with wine but also as a landscape feature when choosing a walk in the area.

For a choice of scenery, one trail offers views of Lac de Castelgaillard, while the other features forest and vineyards. This lets you compare the two circular trails by their different landscape features.

Church, route and architectural history

The Eglise Saint-Sernin-de-Duras is located on a route to Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle. Its architecture consists of a single-nave church with a flat-ended apse. A single-nave church has one main space, or nave; a flat-ended apse describes the straight end of the chancel. After being damaged during the Wars of Religion, the church was restored in the 17th century. Its connection to the route, floor plan and restoration history offer different ways to understand the church.

Picnic area in Saint-Sernin

The picnic area in Saint-Sernin has a car park and two shaded picnic tables. If you are planning a break outdoors, the number of tables and the shade are useful details to bear in mind. Facilities may change, so check what is currently available at the site before your visit.

Discover more destinations: Montignac-Toupinerie, Colayrac-Saint-Cirq, Pujols, Fumel, Réaup-Lisse, Castelmoron-Sur-Lot, Sérignac-Péboudou, Parranquet.

For the broader travel overview: Lot Et Garonne.