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Museum · Sarlat & the Dordogne, France

Lascaux IV

An exact facsimile of a cave closed since 1963 because human breath was destroying the paintings.

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Lascaux IV is in Sarlat & the Dordogne, and this is Sarlat & the Dordogne — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 980 km across and 350 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 2 hours · Open year-round · 45.053°N, 1.174°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

The TGV network makes Paris–Marseille three hours and Paris–Bordeaux two. All of France →

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Sarlat & the Dordogne · The Loire & the Southwest · France

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Those are the three fields that go stale fastest and the three you are most damaged by being wrong about, so this site does not carry them at all rather than carrying an unverified version. Check the operator or the municipality on the day. The estimate of how long to give it, and the season, are editorial judgements and are usually stable.

Other places in Sarlat & the Dordogne

Château de Beynac

A cliff-top fortress facing its enemy across the river, essentially unchanged since the 1300s.

Castle

The record

What this atlas holds about Lascaux IV, and nothing it does not.

Kind
Museum
Give it
2 hours
Season
Open year-round
Where
45.053°N, 1.174°E
In
Sarlat & the Dordogne