Vallon-Pont-d’Arc

Vallon-Pont-d'Arc is a town and commune in the Ardèche département, in the south of France. Nearby cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, decorated by well preserved prehistoric drawings of human figures and animals was inscribed to the World Heritage list in 2014.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Chauvet Cave and Caverne du Pont-d’Arc.

Cave
Photo: Inocybe, Public domain.
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in the department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life.

Museum
Photo: Claude Valette, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Caverne du Pont-d'Arc, Chauvet 2, is a replica of the in the commune of , in the department of and in the Rhône-Alpes region of . Construction began in October 2012 and it was opened to the public in 2015.

Cave
Photo: JYB Devot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a cave.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lagorce and Salavas.

Photo: Michael.joffre, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a little village in a relatively large commune, near Vallon Pont d'Arc in the Ardèche département, in the south of .

Village
Photo: René Dinkel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department in southern .

Vallon-Pont-d’Arc

Latitude
44.4069° or 44° 24′ 25″ north
Longitude
4.3936° or 4° 23′ 37″ east
Population
2,360
Elevation
111 metres (364 feet)
Open location code
8FP6C94V+QC
Geo­Names ID
6425872
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Localities in the Area

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