Dordogne B&B Accommodation. Dordogne Bed & Breakfast holiday at it’s best.
Dordogne B&B Accommodation. Dordogne Bed & Breakfast holiday at it’s best.
The cave of Rouffignac is unique in many ways. First, it is about three miles from the Vèzére River; all the others are much closer. Secondly it is really long -several miles long. In order to see the artwork you join your guide on a small electric train that travels about half a mile into [...]
Le Bournat village, a unique site in the Dordogne – Périgord which offers visitors of all ages some unforgettable memories. Here local craftsmen bring an exceptional heritage back to life and all events in the village, even the “1900″ fun fair, are free. Since its foundation, Le Bournat village has been constantly changing and renewing [...]
Prehistory at Commarque
The Beune Valley has been occupied for a very long time. Around Commarque, prehistoric man has left numerous traces of his passage. Not far from the site at Commarque, Paleolithic man left two female statuettes known as the Venus of Sireuil and the Venus of Laussel.
On the other side of [...]
In 1489, François de Caumont, Lord of Castelnaud, a fortress a little further along the valley, built the Milandes castle, at his wife, Claude De Cardaillac’s request as she was depressed by the austere atmosphere of the Castelnaud castle. Les Milandes, or Mirandes as it used to be pronounced referring to its site which has [...]
In 1922, Jean Maury, who was then an archaeologist at Laugerie Basse, noticed a small natural terrace halfway up the great cliff of the Grand Roc.
He quickly climbed up to discover a small crack giving way to a slow flowing spring. Unaware of the origin of this flow, this inquiring mind rapidly imagined that a [...]
About 450m (1,500 ft.) uphill from the Lascaux Caves, a minor road branches off and runs through a forest until it reaches the Site Préhistorique de Regourdou. Discovered in 1954, this site is believed to be a center for a prehistoric bear cult. Found at the site were the sepulcher and skeleton of a Neanderthal [...]
On the left bank of the Beune River, a group of caves are located at the opening of the small Combarelles Valley. The entrance to the Les Combarelles Caves is located on the right side of the departmental road 47, 2 kilometers after the village of Les Eyzies in the direction of Sarlat.
The environment of [...]
Gouffre de Padirac an enormous chasm at Padirac is about 99 metres around the rim, and you will descend 75 metres to enter the cave system.
History
* 1865 Count Murat andm. de Salvagnac climbed down the entrance shaft, maybe because of a bet.
* 9 to 11-July-1889 Edouard Alfred [...]
Lascaux is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its cave paintings. The original caves are located near the village of Montignac, in the Dordogne département. They contain some of the most well-known Upper Paleolithic art. These paintings are estimated to be 16,000 years old. They primarily consist of realistic [...]
Tucked away in the Beune Valley a few kilometres from Les Eyzies, the Cap Blanc Prehistoric Centre reveals another aspect of Prehistoric Art Sculpture.
Over 15 000 years ago, Prehistoric hunters carved horses, bison and reindeer, some of which are over two metres long, straight into the Limestone cliffs.
Cap Blanc, which was discovered in 1909, is [...]
L’abri Pataud is the only prehistoric site in the Dordogne to have been converted into a museum. It is situated 15 metres above the river Vézère at the foot of an imposing cliff which dominates the village of les Eyzies-de-Tayac. Not far away to the north is the famous Cro-Magnon shelter whose discovery made the [...]
Halfway between les Eyzies and Montignac-Lascaux, in the valley of the river Vézère rises the high cliff of La Roque St Christophe. This wall of limestone one kilometer long and eighty meters high is pierced with a hundred rock shelters and long overhead terraces. These natural cavities were occupied by man in prehistoric times. Later [...]
The Château de Beynac is a castle situated in the commune of Beynac-et-Cazenac, in the Dordogne département of France. The castle is one of the best preserved and most well-known in the region.
This Middle Ages construction, with its austere appearance, is perched on top of a limestone cliff, dominating the town and the north bank [...]
Located in Les Eyzies, on the Sarlat road, Font-de-Gaume Cave is a showpiece of Magdalenian engravings and paintings from around 14 000 BC. The flints (chisels, scrapers, blades) and other things found in the cave during the excavations testify to a continual occupation since the Mousterian age, or the age of the Neanderthals.
Discovered in 1901 [...]
A stone’s throw from the Vézère, across from a ford, prehistoric men settled here more than 20.000 years ago.
Preserved in exceptional condition and fully furnished with period furniture, it is the only monument of its kind in France, a “Château falaise” fully intact.
Listed a historical monument, this is the strangest, most secret, most extraordinary, and [...]
The new national prehistoric museum of Eyzies de Tayac bares all
Built in an overhang shelter on the face of a striking cliff, the National Prehistoric Museum of Eyzies de Tayac is located in Dordogne, in southwestern France. The museum features unique archaeological collections chiefly discovered at the most prestigious excavation sites in the Vézère Valley, [...]
This site is sponsored by B&B Ferme de Tayac, voted nicest B&B in the Vezere Valley 3 years running.
Ferme de Tayac, a lovely B&B in a 12th century former Farmhouse / Monastery situated in Tayac, a quaint little village in the heart of the Vezere Valley and only 5 minutes walk from Les Eyzies, the Prehistoric Capital of the World. The rooms are all en suite, spacious and comfy, all with views and in former Monks quarters and oozing history. Built up against solid rock, which means that both downstairs and upstairs are on ground level, walls of solid rock, ancient oak beam structures, fortified walls 3 feet thick, a massive and original wine press in the huge dining room, monk's carvings in the stone walls, and lots and lots more.
For more info please visit their official web site : www.fermedetayac.com