Caves and shelters in the Gard

30700 Collias

The Cave of Columns, located in Collias in the Gard, is a cave decorated with the Paleolithic with rock paintings attributed to the Aurignacian and classified as a historical monument since 1931.

Grotte ornée
30760 Aiguèze

The cave at the Pointes d'Aiguèze is a cave adorned with the Upper Paleolithic located in Aiguèze (Gard), famous for its rock paintings and its dermatoglyph handprints unique in Occitanie.

Abris sous roche
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).

Grotte
30750 Trèves

The prehistoric cave of Pas-de-Joulé, located in Trier in the Gard, is a neolithic site housing the remains of more than 300 individuals dated 2300 BC, classified as a historical monument in 1953.

Grotte ornée
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.

Grotte préhistorique
30770 Blandas

The Baumelles Cave, listed as a historical monument in 2016, is a prehistoric neolithic site located in Blandas, Occitanie, home to major archaeological remains such as a stele-menhir and human skulls covered with calcite.

Grotte ornée
30760 Aiguèze

The Chabot d'Aiguèze Cave, located in the Gard en Occitanie, is a cave decorated with the Upper Paleolithic famous for its mammoth engravings and its pioneering role in the recognition of prehistoric parietal art.

Grotte préhistorique
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.