Virginia Woolf stayed here in 1937, and was pleased to meet "no tourists … England seems like a chocolate box bursting with trippers afterward." Things have changed since 1937 and now Souillac is a busy tourist town during the summer months with visitors from all over the world. The twelfth-century Church of Saint Marie. Roofed with massive domes like the cathedrals of Périgueux and Cahors, its spacious interior creates just the atmosphere for cool reflection on a summer's day. On the back of the west door are some of the most wonderful Romanesque sculptures, including a seething mass of beasts devouring each other. The greatest piece of craftsmanship, though, is a bas-relief of Isaiah, fluid and supple, thought to be by one of the artists who worked at Moissac.