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Vallon Pont d'Arc
Vallon Pont d'Arc is in the Ardeche department of the Rhone-Alpes.
A quiet tranquil place in winter, the village leaps to life in summer when hordes of visitors wishing to explore the Gorges de l'Ardeche descend on Vallon Pont d'Arc.
The town itself is a pleasant enough place to explore, with streets lined with old buildings, cafes...and tourist type shop. The Chastelas part of the town - the old town - is the most interesting.
If you can tear yourself away from the gorges for a while, it was near Vallon that one of the very oldest painted caves in the world was discovered. It was 32,000 years ago that the Grotte Chauvet was inhabited, and decorated with fantastic cave paintings. The caves were discovered in 1994. Unfortunately they can not be opened to the public (to avoid the same damage that took place to the Lascaux caves) but a copy and a museum dedicated to the caves can be visited.
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Some of the closer places are listed below (distances from Vallon Pont d'Arc are approximate and direct - as the crow flies. Only places listed on the france this way site are shown!)
- Avallon Town in Morvan, Burgundy at 0 km
- Noyers-sur-Serein Town at 25 km
- Vezelay World Heritage Site at 18 km
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