Historic sites
Font-de-Gaume and the Vézère valley
Saint-Cyprien, Dordogne
The Vézère valley around Les Eyzies holds an exceptional concentration of prehistoric caves and shelters, a World Heritage Site.
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Lascaux IV cave paintings
Montignac, Dordogne
The cave of Lascaux, discovered in 1940, holds some of the finest prehistoric paintings in the world: bulls, horses and deer painted about 17,000 yea…
Historic sites
Château de Puyguilhem
Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière, Dordogne
A small Renaissance château in the green Périgord, built in the 1510s and often compared with the châteaux of the Loire.