Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Grotte des Merveilles
Rocamadour, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Grotte des Merveilles avec ses gravures et ses peintures préhistoriques, au hameau de l'Hospitalet (cad. E 219, 227) : classement par arrêté du 16 mai 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/05/16 : classé MH
- Type
- grotte ornée
- Main period of construction
- Préhistoire
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Rocamadour
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.80574, 1.62529
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095200
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Grotte creusée dans la falaise calcaire, découverte en 1920.
English translation
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History
Cave dug into the limestone cliff, discovered in 1920.
Nearby in the register
- Ruines de l'ancien hôpitalhôpitalunder 1 mi
- Porte de l'Hôpital, dite Porte Sainteporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Porte dite du Figuierporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Porte dite Malbec ou Salmonporte de villeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.