Located in the municipality of Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, near the famous Pont d’Arc which marks the entrance to the Ardèche gorges, the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave, discovered in 1994 by three passionate speleologists, is a masterpiece of prehistoric wall art. This cave with cave paintings from the Palaeolithic period contains an extraordinary bestiary in which there are no less than 425 animal figures! Dating back to the Aurignacian period, these paintings and engravings are among the oldest in the world…
