Chateau de Commarque
The Beune Valley has been occupied for a very long time. Around Commarque, prehistoric man has left numerous traces of his passage.
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The Beune Valley has been occupied for a very long time. Around Commarque, prehistoric man has left numerous traces of his passage.
Beynac, linked firmly to its past, as to the rock on which it is built, is a magnificent village which has managed to retain all of its medieval charm
Castelnaud, or rather, Castelnau, meaning the “new castle” was founded in the 12th century
Limeuil has been lived on since prehistoric times (various artefacts dating from approximately 10,000 BC have been found)
Sarlat the geographical centre of Périgord-Quercy, is by far the most important tourist site in the region
Forte de Reignac is a stone’s throw from the Vezere, across from a ford, prehistoric men settled here more than 20.000 years ago
Laugerie Basse’s Prehistory dates back 15,000 years, but its History dates back only 130 years, precisely 1863, when Edouard Lartet, an eminent paleontologist, arrived in Les Eyzies
The museum features unique archaeological collections chiefly discovered at the most prestigious excavation sites in the Vézère Valley, added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List owing to its many Palaeolithic remains
Let us take you back, to the places our ancestors called “home” more than 260000 years ago
Discovered in 1901 by D. Peyrony, the Cave, 130 m long, contains about 250 paintings. The visitor can only see 30 of them, the most beautiful ones and the best preserved