Combarelles Cave

Les Combarelles is one of the Most Beautiful Caves in France and a cave in the Dordogne town of Les Eyzies de Tayac that was inhabited by Cro-Magnons between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago. The two galleries in the cave, which contain over 600 prehistoric engravings of animals and symbols, were critical in the re-evaluation of these prehistoric humans' mental and technical capabilities around the turn of the last century. The cave was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979, along with other nearby paleolithic sites and cave paintings, as part of the Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley.

The Combarelles cave is only a 20-minute walk or 2-minute drive from Font-de-Gaume. There are no paintings in this cave, but there are over 600 engravings of animals and symbols that date back around 12,000 years. This cave may make you feel like Indiana Jones as you venture deeper into the nearly 1,000-foot-long cave with an average cave width of just over 3ft! This is not for the faint of heart. If you can't get tickets for Font-de-Gaume on the day or are afraid of the confined cave of Combarelles, the Lascaux 4 replica is a good alternative, and it's only a half-hour drive away from these two prehistoric sites.

Location: Les Eyzies, France