Padirac Cave

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The Padirac gulf, or Padirac well, is the monumental entrance to a natural cavity, located in the Lot in France, of a dimension of about 35 meters in diameter. At the bottom of the well, 103 metres deep, a subterranean river flows which has dug and shaped galleries for one to two million years and which runs through a large karst network of over 58 kilometres mapped in 2025. A jewel of French underground tourism, it is the second most visited cavity in Europe, after Postojna in Slovenia.