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Grotte des Merveilles

Rocamadour, Lot, France

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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

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Grotte creusée dans la falaise calcaire, découverte en 1920.

English translation

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Cave dug into the limestone cliff, discovered in 1920.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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