Things to do in Les Eyzies
Around Les Eyzies, Notrebellefrance lists 19 tourist sites within 12 km, including 8 caves, 5 castles, 2 museums and 2 villages. Not to be missed: Gouffre de Proumeyssac, Les Eyzies and La Grotte du Grand Roc.
Gouffre de Proumeyssac
Already famous in the eighteenth century for its terrifying legends, the Proumeyssac chasm was only explored in 1907.
Les Eyzies
A village nestled at the foot of high troglodyte limestone cliffs, nicknamed the "world capital of prehistory" for the exceptional density of its Palaeolithic deposits.
La Grotte du Grand Roc
Set into a magnificent cliff overlooking the Vézère, the Grand Roc cave is an exceptional jewel.
Univerland Le Bugue (ex-Parc Aquarium du Périgord Noir)
The largest private aquarium in Europe at Le Bugue-sur-Vézère. With more than 3 million litres of water and more than 600 fish, the Périgord Noir Aquarium is without doubt the largest private open-air freshwater aquarium.
Grotte des Combarelles
A long engraved gallery in the Vézère valley, with many animal figures of Prehistory.
Grotte de Font-de-Gaume
The last polychrome decorated cave still open to visitors in France, in the Vézère valley.
Musée National de Préhistoire
The Musée national at Les Eyzies is at the centre of the greatest concentration in the world of sites occupied and decorated by man.
Grottes du Roc de Cazelle
Maison Forte de Reignac
Château de Commarque
In the Vézère valley, on a wild site, the château de Commarque was built in the twelfth century by the abbots of Sarlat to counter the power of the Beynacs.
Grotte de Roque Saint Christophe
Halfway between Les Eyzies and Montignac, in one of the most beautiful landscapes of the Périgord, the enormous cliff of La Roque Saint-Christophe rises sheer above the Vézère.
Château de Campagne
Les Cabanes Du Breuil
Near the château de Puymartin, the exceptional ensemble of the Cabanes du Breuil illustrates the country of stones that old Périgord was, still very present in this farm where geese cackle peacefully.
Le village de Bournat
Grotte de Rouffignac
The Rouffignac cave is in the heart of the Black Périgord. This cavity was successively inhabited by cave bears and prehistoric artists.
Château de Puymartin
Puymartin, built around 1270 and once surrounded below by a village of the same name, served as a border between France and England when the Hundred Years' War began; it was then pillaged, stripped of its crenellations, ramparts, towers and roofs.
Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère
Inhabited since the dawn of time, the caves and caverns formed perfect natural shelters for our ancestors, the Cro-Magnon people.
Grotte de Bara-Bahau
Overlooking the Vézère valley, in the village of Le Bugue, you will discover the surprising Bara-Bahau cave, whose dialect name comes from the expression "and badaboom!!!" The cavity is just behind the reception and its unusual entrance will not fail to astonish you.
