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A wealth of story-book chateaux such as Losse in Thonac, Château de Beynac in Beynac-et-Cazenac, and the excellent museum of medieval warfare at the fortified Chateau de Castelnaud in Castelnaud-La Chapelle.The French government has built Lascaux II near the site where tourists can see a copy of the original cave.

However, due to the damage resulting from too many people visiting the caves, they have been permanently closed to the public.

Visitors from around the world flock to see the prehistoric caves of Lascaux, thought by many scholars to be the world's best.See Paintings in the caves of Lascaux The Chateau de Puymartin near Sarlat Taxi: There are several taxi companies operating around Sarlat and the Dordogne valley. The Transperigord links Souillac to Sarlat via the Dordogne valley twice daily and the Sarlat Bus services various areas of Sarlat itself. A number of trains operate from Bordeaux to Sarlat each day, which takes about 3 hours and is a reasonably scenic journey.īus: There is no bus station in Sarlat but some services operate from the railway station. Railway: Trains from Paris to Souillac or Paris to Libourne and then change for Sarlat using the Bergerac line. There isn't much in the way of public transport around the Périgord Noir area of which Sarlat is the main town.

They're the Périgord Vert (Green, in the north), the Périgord Blanc (White, in the north-east), Périgord Noir (Black, in the south-east) and the Périgord Pourpre (Purple, in the south-west).īy car to the Dordogne, the A20 and then the A89 to Périgueux. The name is still commonly used by the French, as the Dordogne is divided into four regions, named after the historic province. The Dordogne department roughly follows the shape of the historic Périgord, a former province and one of the primary battlegrounds during the Hundred Years' War. 45.029444 1.128889 3 Château de Losse in 45.022222 1.117222 13 Thonac is an excellent example of a 16th-century French castle, well preserved and with lovely gardens.45.066389 1.161389 1 Montignac - The prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux.44.866111 1.050833 4 Castels - merged with Bézenac to form Castels et Bézenac.Recommended.Map of Dordogne Through the Dordogne flows the river that shares its name The Benedictine Monastery of Brantôme It is a pretty cool experience and, considering very few people can visit the actual cave (not even Macron), it’s as close as you can possibly get. The workshop follows the “caves” where you can get a better view of some of the art work in the “caves” and take pics, as there are no pictures allowed in the reproduction caves. All understanding is interpretive as pre-historians have been unable to conclusively nail down all the info. Wandering through the reproduction, the guide points out various features in the art work. A tour guide does a good job of immersing you in the history of Lascaux, from its discovery, through the current day. Everyone is provided with a set of headphones and a receiver. French pandemic rules were in play requiring the sanitary pass and masks indoors. There are one to two tours daily in English. You need to book tickets online and for specific time. As faithful a recreation as possible, via the use of 3D imaging and printing, it is as good as you’re ever going to see. They built the first replica, Lascaux II in the seventies. The real Lascaux Cave was closed to the public in 1963.

It was delightful with incredible paintings including a beautiful one of a woman’s face peering out at you from 16,000 years ago, We went to another more famous cave with maybe more “dramatic” paintings but getting herded by them was nothing like our incredible tour with Michael as our personal guide, One of the best things you will do in the Dordogne. Michael has very good English and is quite knowledgeable explaining the paintings and the history of the cave. Michael spent almost two hours with just me and my wife taking us through the four dark caverns with only a flashlight to illuminate over 100 cave paintings. This family-owned cave is an experience like no other.

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The cave is only open when you owners are free to give you a tour, PLEASE NOTE that GPS will take you to a parking area that is then a 15 minute walk through the woods with tiny hand written signs pointing you to the cave entrance where you will find a locked steel door, We were about to leave at 5:20 when a man pulled up on a scooter and introduced himself as Michael. I was told it was not possible but a tour could be arranged at 5pm. On a whim during lunch, I called the number listed for this cave to see if they might have a tour available at 2:30.

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