Caves and rock shelters in Languedoc-Roussillon

Prehistoric cave
30210 Vers-Pont-du-Gard

The Balauzière Cave, in Vers-Pont-du-Gard (Gard), is a prehistoric site occupied from Paleolithic to Neolithic, also home to a medieval hermitage in ruins today classified as a historical monument.

Sheltered in rock
30210 Vers-Pont-du-Gard

The Salpêtrière Cave, a rock shelter in the Upper Paleolithic region of Remoulins (Gard), offers a major stratigraphy for the Mediterranean Midi. Ranked a historic monument in 1931, it illustrates the Salpetrian culture (~19,000 years).

Prehistoric cave
11370 Leucate

The Leucate Fairy Cave, located near the pond in the Aude, is a Gallo-Roman and Chalcolithic archaeological site classified historical monument since 1924.

Sheltered in rock
11430 Gruissan

The Crouzade Cave, located near Gruissan in the Aude, is a prehistoric rock shelter classified as a historical monument, famous for its Azilian painted pebbles and its neolithic Mussterian remains.

Cave
34360 Ferrières-Poussarou

The Camprafaud Cave, located at Ferrières-Poussarou in Occitanie, is a prehistoric site of the Neolithic listed Historic Monument, offering a rare testimony of ancient human occupations in the Hérault.

Ornate cave
34190 Laroque

The cave of La Vache, in Laroque (Herault), is a cavity adorned with the Paleolithic with Magdalenian engravings, unique in Occitanie for its parietal art.

Ornate cave
30190 Sainte-Anastasie

The Labaume-Latrone cave in Sainte-Anastasie, Occitanie, is a major prehistoric site with paleolithic drawings among the oldest in Europe, dated 37,464, as well as neolithic remains and the Bronze Age.

Cave
34700 Lodève

Treviols Cave is a natural site in Lodève, Occitanie. This monument, whose exact period remains unknown, is part of the local heritage of the region.