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.

Cave
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.

Cave
30210 Collias

The Collias Column Cave is a natural cavity in the commune of Collias in the Occitan region. This underground site is an emblematic monument of local heritage.

Prehistoric cave
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.

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.

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
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.

Ornate cave
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.