Les Eyzies entdecken

The Grand Roc Cave opens halfway up the limestone cliff above the Vézère at Les Eyzies, about 100 metres from the Laugerie-Basse rock shelters. Discovered by Jean Maury in 1924 and opened to visitors in 1947, it holds mineral formations rather than prehistoric art: helictites, stalactites, stalagmites and rare hollow triangles of calcite.

Laugerie-Basse is a pair of prehistoric rock shelters under a limestone cliff by the Vézère, near Les Eyzies, lived in by Magdalenian people about 14,000 years ago. Dug from 1863, the site yielded some 600 objects, including the carving known as the Vénus impudique. Visitors walk beneath the overhang, past a reconstructed camp.