Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Grotte de la Magdeleine
Penne, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Grotte de la Magdeleine (cad. O 28) : classement par arrêté du 24 mars 1953
- Protection dates
- 1953/03/24 : classé MH
- Type
- grotte
- Main period of construction
- Préhistoire
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Penne
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.07401, 1.70043
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095617
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 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La grotte surplombe l'Aveyron d'une vingtaine de mètres. Les parois sont ornées de gravures représentant des figurations animales.
English translation
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History
The cave overlooks the Aveyron by about twenty metres. The walls are decorated with carvings representing animal figurations.
Nearby in the register
- Site archéologique de la grotte de Bruniquelgrotte1 mi
- Château de Pennechâteau1 mi
- Forges de Caussanusforge anglaise1 mi
- Église Sainte-Catherineéglise1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.