Guided tour of a prehistoric cave decorated with the Paleolithic period

Name: Visite guidée d'une grotte préhistorique ornée de l'époque du Paléolithique
Start: 2023-09-17T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Grotte de Font-de-Gaume

Follow your guide and discover one of the most beautiful Palaeolithic shrines in the world still open to the public!

Dimanche 17 septembre 2023, 09h30, 14h00Passé

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©Olivier Huard / Centre des monuments nationaux

Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, the Font-de-Game cave is one of the most beautiful Palaeolithic shrines in the world. Famous for its polychrome paintings, but also its engravings, it brings together animal figurations and many «signs» dated about 14 000 years. It is one of the last caves decorated with polychrome paintings open to the public.

À propos du lieu

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume

4 avenue des grottes, 24620 Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil

Dordogne
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The Cave of Font-de-Gaume is one of the most beautiful palaeolithic sanctuaries of the world still opened to the public. She(It) shelters more than 200 painted or engraved, often polychrome playings bit parts, representing bisons, horses, mammoths and reindeers.