Font-de-Gaume

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The Font-de-Gaume Cave is a French adorned cave located in the former commune of Eyzies-de-Tayac (new town of Eyzies), in the Dordogne department. Its walls have more than 200 magdalenian engravings and paintings. The Font-de-Gaume cave is one of France's last major adorned caves featuring polychrome works, which are open to the public.

The works are comparable by their richness to those of Arcy-sur-Cure (the oldest known parietal art still accessible to the public), Altamira or Lascaux, even if their state of conservation is considerably less. It is one of the fifteen "prehistoric sites and caves adorned with the Vézère Valley" listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1979.