Dordogne
Arrondissement of Sarlat-la-Canéda
Montignac

Lascaux

Lascaux is a network of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of in southwestern France. Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave.
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  • Type: Cave
  • Description: cave in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings
  • Also known as: “Grotte de Lescaux”, “Lascaux cave”, and “Lascaux Cave”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Le Regourdou and Hôtel de Bouilhac.

Archaeological site
Photo: Le Regourdou, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an archaeological site in the department, France, on top of a hill just 800 m from the famous cave complex of Lascaux. At this now collapsed 35 m deep ancient karst cavity remarkably well preserved Neanderthal fossils were recovered, that might be skeletal remains of deliberate burials. is situated 630 metres east of Lascaux.

Historic building
Photo: Père Igor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a historic building, which is situated 1½ km northwest of Lascaux.

Post office
Photo: Michel Chanaud, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a post office, which is situated 1¼ km north of Lascaux.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Valojoulx and Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère.

Village
Photo: Sébastien DEBARGE, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department in in southwestern France. is situated 4½ km southwest of Lascaux.

Village
Photo: Père Igor, CC BY 3.0.
is a commune in the department in in southwestern . It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France Association. is situated 8 km southwest of Lascaux.

Village
Photo: Père Igor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department in in southwestern . Condat-Le Lardin station has rail connections to Bordeaux, Périgueux and Brive-la-Gaillarde. is situated 9 km northeast of Lascaux.

Lascaux

Latitude
45.05377° or 45° 3′ 14″ north
Longitude
1.17096° or 1° 10′ 16″ east
Elevation
160 metres (525 feet)
Open location code
8FQ3353C+G9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3182744761
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cave_entrance
Geo­Names ID
3006471
Wiki­data ID
Q172125
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Lascaux” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lascaux”
  • Arabic: “كهف لاسكو”
  • Armenian: “Լասկո քարանձավ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lasko mağarası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Laskou mağarası”
  • Basque: “Las Caus”
  • Basque: “Lascaux”
  • Basque: “Vézère ibarreko Aurrehistoriako Guneak eta Leize Apainduak”
  • Belarusian: “Ляско (пячора)”
  • Belarusian: “Ляско”
  • Belarusian: “Пячора Ласко”
  • Belarusian: “пячора Ляско”
  • Belarusian: “Пячора Ляско”
  • Bosnian: “Pećina Lascaux”
  • Breton: “Mougev Las Caus”
  • Bulgarian: “Ласко”
  • Catalan: “Cova de Lascaux”
  • Catalan: “Coves de Lascaux”
  • Catalan: “Coves de les Caus”
  • Catalan: “Las Caus”
  • Chinese: “拉斯科”
  • Chinese: “拉斯科洞窟壁画”
  • Chinese: “拉斯科洞窟壁畫”
  • Chinese: “拉斯考克山洞”
  • Chuvash: “Ласко”
  • Croatian: “Lascaux”
  • Croatian: “Spilja Lascaux”
  • Czech: “Lascaux”
  • Danish: “Lascaux-hulerne”
  • Danish: “Lascaux”
  • Dutch: “Grot van Lascaux”
  • Dutch: “Grotten van Lascaux”
  • Dutch: “Lascaux”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لاسكو”
  • Esperanto: “Groto Lascaux”
  • Esperanto: “Kavo de Lascaux”
  • Finnish: “Lascaux’n luola”
  • Finnish: “Lascaux’n luolamaalaukset”
  • Finnish: “Lascaux”
  • Finnish: “Lascauxin luola”
  • Finnish: “Lascauxin luolamaalaukset”
  • French: “grotte de Lascaux”
  • French: “Grotte de Lascaux”
  • French: “grottes de Lascaux”
  • French: “La grotte de lascaux”
  • French: “Lascaux”
  • Galician: “Cova de Lascaux”
  • Georgian: “ლასკოს მღვიმე”
  • German: “Höhle von Lascaux”
  • German: “Lascaux”
  • Greek: “Σπήλαιο Λασκώ”
  • Hebrew: “מערת לאסקו”
  • Hebrew: “מערת לסקו”
  • Hindi: “लैसकॉक्स”
  • Hungarian: “Lascaux-barlang”
  • Hungarian: “lascaux-i barlang”
  • Hungarian: “Lascaux-i barlang”
  • Ido: “Lascaux”
  • Indonesian: “Gua Lascaux”
  • Indonesian: “Lascaux”
  • Irish: “Lascaux”
  • Italian: “Grotta di Lascaux”
  • Italian: “Grotte di Lascaux”
  • Japanese: “ラスコー”
  • Japanese: “ラスコー洞窟”
  • Japanese: “ラスコー洞窟壁画”
  • Korean: “라스코 동굴”
  • Latin: “Spelunca Lascaux”
  • Latvian: “Lasko”
  • Lithuanian: “Lasko urvai”
  • Low German: “Grottekeningen van Lascaux”
  • Macedonian: “Ласко”
  • Malagasy: “zohy Lascaux”
  • Malay: “Lascaux”
  • Maltese: “Għar ta‘ Lascaux”
  • Maltese: “Lascaux”
  • Marathi: “लास्को”
  • Marathi: “लॅस्को”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Grotte de Lascaux”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lascaux-grotten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lascaux”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lascaux”
  • Norwegian: “Lascaux”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Balma de Las Caus”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bauma de Las Caus”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cauna de Las Caus”
  • Persian: “لاسکو”
  • Polish: “Lascaux”
  • Portuguese: “Lascaux”
  • Romanian: “Peștera din Lascaux”
  • Russian: “Ласко”
  • Russian: “Ляско”
  • Russian: “Пещера Ласко”
  • Scots: “Lascaux”
  • Serbian: “Pećina Lasko”
  • Serbian: “Ласко”
  • Serbian: “Пећина Ласко”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lascaux”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pećina Lasko”
  • Slovak: “Lascaux”
  • Slovenian: “Lascaux”
  • Spanish: “Cueva de Lascaux”
  • Spanish: “Lascaux”
  • Swedish: “Grottmålningarna i Lascaux”
  • Swedish: “Lascaux”
  • Swedish: “Lascauxgrottan”
  • Swiss German: “D Hööli vo Lascaux”
  • Thai: “ถ้ำลัสโก”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Höhle von Lascaux”
  • Turkish: “Lascaux Mağarası”
  • Turkish: “Lascaux”
  • Ukrainian: “Печера Ласко”
  • Uzbek: “Lascaux”
  • Venetian: “Cógołi de Lascaux”
  • Venetian: “Cóvołi de Lascaux”
  • Venetian: “Grote de Lascaux”
  • Venetian: “Lascaux”
  • Vietnamese: “Lascaux”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lascaux”
  • Welsh: “Lascaux”
  • Welsh: “Ogofâu Lascaux”
  • Western Frisian: “Grotten fan Lascaux”
  • Western Panjabi: “لاسکو”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉斯科洞窟壁画”
  • “Lascaux Cave”

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