Top 16 Caves 도르도뉴

Impossible to miss

Very picturesque site but unfortunately currently closed to visitors: you will not be able to enjoy the small museum or the interior of the cave ☹️

A worthwhile visit, even if it's not the original cave. But the replica is very well done, and the self-guided tour with the audio guide, also in German, explains everything in a very interesting way.

This museum is certainly interesting, unfortunately we didn't have enough time

Impressive are the dwellings in the rocks and the houses from the rocks

Here we have the situation – previously completely unknown to me and therefore surprising – that MADELEINE, a Christian saint (the name is derived from the biblical "Mary Magdalene"), has become the namesake of an era from the proverbial "dim prehistory" (one to one and a half dozen millennia before the beginning of our era). To paraphrase it from Wikipedia, which can explain it better than I can: "The Magdalenian is an archaeological cultural stage in the younger part of the Upper Paleolithic in Central and Western Europe at the end of the last Ice Age. The Magdalenian was named in 1869 by Gabriel de Mortillet after the semi-cave La Madeleine in the Dordogne department. It spanned an approximate period from approximately 18,000 to 12,000 BC."

This real limestone wall, one kilometer long and eighty meters high, constantly undermined by the river and the frost, has been hollowed out with a hundred rock shelters and long aerial terraces; these natural cavities were occupied by prehistoric man and then modified to become a fort and a city from the Middle Ages until the beginning of the Renaissance.

The forgotten fortress: a millefeuille of stones where dungeons and fortified castles, troglodytes and prehistoric caves overlap in a preserved landscape