It's unimaginable to come to our region without making a detour to the Chauvet Cave!
Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since June 2014, the Chauvet Cave will amaze you and help you discover our ancestors in a different light, because no, they were not rough and aggressive beings, pulling the "females" by the hair!
We now visit Chauvet II, an absolutely breathtaking replica of the original cave
In December 1994, three speleologists discovered a fabulous cave, decorated with thousands of drawings, moving witnesses to the artistic sense of our ancestors and their desire to beautify their environment. They lived 33,000 years ago, 16,000 years before those who decorated Lascaux, our ancestors have left us their memory, attesting to their development and their sensitivity.
The paintings and sculptures produced are among the oldest in the world. The mastery of the extremely advanced techniques that they used is similar to those that we still use in the 21st century: preparation of the walls, scraping, charcoal drawings, stumping and shading of colors, mixing of all these operations. We are overcome with emotion as we admire the hordes of horses pursued by determined lionesses, we discover that our country was inhabited by breeds that are now found on other continents: tigers, panthers, woolly rhinoceroses, bison, reindeer with monumental antlers, and in other eras of course like mammoths and cave bears,
You will no doubt be moved by the little horse drawn in charcoal, which hides in the crevice of a protruding rock, and which thus escapes the massacre of its herd.
At the end of the exceptional reconstruction that you will have had the pleasure of discovering, you will find a large interactive and educational space which will allow you, while having fun, to acquire knowledge that you did not imagine, to discover their daily way of life, to admire refined jewelry and fine little statues.