Grotte de Mézelet

Grotte de Mézelet is a cave in Ardèche and Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Grotte de Mézelet is situated nearby to the cave Grotte de la Chaire, as well as near Ranch des Gorges.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chauvet Cave and Grotte des Huguenots.

Chauvet Cave

Cave

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The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in the Ardèche 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. Chauvet Cave is situated 1 km east of Grotte de Mézelet.

Grotte des Huguenots

Cave

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Grotte des Huguenots is a cave, which is situated 630 metres southeast of Grotte de Mézelet.

Grotte de la Vacheresse

Cave

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Grotte de la Vacheresse is a cave, which is situated 1 km east of Grotte de Mézelet.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pont d’Arc and Vallon-Pont-d’Arc.

Pont d’Arc

Locality

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The Pont d'Arc is a large natural bridge, located in the Ardèche département in the south of France, 5 km from the town of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc. The arch, formed when the river Ardèche broke through a narrow escarpment between its meander, is 59 metres wide and 34 m high at the top of the opening.

Vallon-Pont-d’Arc

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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.