마우젠에미르몽‬에서 가장 멋진 ‪9‬개의 천연기념물

Beautiful scenery along the river

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

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.

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."

The height difference of 100 meters is quite steep after crossing the road

Welcome to the capital of prehistory! This is the nickname given to this modest village which follows the course of the Vézère. It must be said that the extraordinary sites that you can visit are numerous. In addition to the very richly supplied national museum, I encourage you to go to the Pôle de la préhistoire. Building entirely dedicated to this science and free. Find out about all the prehistoric marvels that can be admired in and around the town. They are not missing. It is not without reason that the Vézère valley has been nicknamed the valley of man.

Really incredibly impressive place - 50,000 years of human history on a rock face. Europe's largest settlement of this kind and also almost unique in the world - UNESCO World Heritage Site. Not to be missed! Ideal in the off-season when only a few people are out and about here.