{"id":1947,"date":"2024-05-26T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T13:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labardemontfort.com\/grotte-de-lascaux\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:58:44","slug":"grotte-de-lascaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labardemontfort.com\/en\/grotte-de-lascaux\/","title":{"rendered":"Grotte de Lascaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sublabel lazylate\"><span style=\"color: #566276;\">Truer than life<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #bba253;\">Grotte de Lascaux<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Discovered in 1940 by 4 P\u00e9rigord teenagers, <strong>the Lascaux cave<\/strong> was open to the public after the war until 1963. Unfortunately, the flood of visitors began to damage the prehistoric paintings on this <strong>UNESCO World Heritage site<\/strong>, prompting its owners to close it for good.<\/p>\n<p>Today, it is possible to visit 2 facsimiles.<\/p>\n<h3>Lascaux II<\/h3>\n<p>Just 200 metres away, even if it&#8217;s not the original cave, the most beautiful and interesting drawings are represented at Lascaux 2. After all, the importance lies in discovering the prehistoric world, and Lascaux is a fine demonstration of this. With much better lighting and unlimited visiting time, it&#8217;s much easier for visitors to see and understand the drawings made by their distant ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Lascaux II is open to visitors all year round, except in January.<\/p>\n<h3>Lascaux IV<\/h3>\n<p>Located less than a kilometre away, Lascaux IV has been open to the public since 2017. It is a millimetre-accurate reproduction of the original. You can see the hole through which Marcel Ravidat accidentally entered the cave in 1940, as well as the 2,000 drawings left by Cro-Magnon man over 18,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The tour of the cave lasts around 40 minutes and is skilfully orchestrated, starting on the roof of the building. After taking the lift with a guide, we descend to artificial depths. There&#8217;s a dark room to get used to the darkness, and then the big jump: we enter the facsimile.<\/p>\n<p>Playful and digital, Lascaux IV is interesting for its complementary activities presented in different rooms that you visit at your own pace, equipped with a tablet.<\/p>\n<p>The 2 caves, Lascaux II and Lascaux IV, complement each other so well that it&#8217;s worth visiting both.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truer than life Grotte de Lascaux Discovered in 1940 by 4 P\u00e9rigord teenagers, the Lascaux cave was open to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caves-chasms-and-prehistory"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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