Karst cave,
cave system,
river cave.
| Location: | 3,5km from Cabrerets, 32km from Cahors. |
| Open: | Palm Sunday or spring holiday-All Saints' day daily 9:30-12 13-17:30. October daily 9:30-12 13-16:45. |
| Fee: | |
| Classification: |
Karst cave,
cave system,
river cave.
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| Light: | electric. |
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| Guided tours: | |
| Bibliography: | |
| Address: |
Grotte de Pech Merle, Centre de Prehistoire/Grotte & Musee, F-46330 Cabrerets. Tel: +33-565312705, Fax: +33-565312047,
email: |
| Last update: | $Date: 2008/05/30 06:55:19 $ |
| 1922 | discovered by two young people. |
Pech-Merle has beautiful speleothemes and interesting waterfilled parts, but it is famous for its prehistoric remains. Beneath stenciled hands, engravings and black line drawings of mammoth and bulls, is the Horse of Pomelé a famous artwork.
This panes shows two dappled horses standing back to back. The bodies and the surroundings are coverd by sprayed black dots. The panel also shows several stenciled hands beneath the horses. Very interesting is, how the artist used the shape of the rock to give the head of one horse a three dimensional look.
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