Horse riding in France

The medieval Perigord

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By visiting the high places of the prehistoric world heritage, travelling to the rhythm of your horse at the heart of the Palaeolithic and explore more than 300 000 years of human history.

The program, rides in beautiful hilly scenery. Visit of site of many prehistoric strong evidence around the valley Vézère.

Day 1: Welcome at the Hotel du Château à Campagne

For non-motorized riders, welcome at the train station of "Le Bugue" and transfer to your hotel.

Day 2: From Campagne to Rouffignac via Eysies

You will visit the National Museum of Prehistory of Les Eysies in order to get directly into the heart of the matter.
It is located near the major shrines of Palaeolithic cave art and reference sources who gave their name to the great cultures of prehistory (Miroquien, Mousterian, Magdalenian). museum traces the last 400 millennia long human history.
By late afternoon, visit of the caves of Rouffignac. Drawings and engravings e bison, horses, bears and 150 mammoths 130 centuries old.

Day 3: From Rouffignac to Montignac via Fleurac

This day will take you through stunning scenery to the caves of Lascaux II. In facsimile, the cave contained two galleries including the famous Hall of the Bulls.

Day 4: From Montignac to Sireuil via Valojoulx

You will follow the Vezere, rivers lined with magnificent caves and dramatic cliffs and reach Valojoulx.
You will visit the Roque Saint-Christophe. Remarkable for its powerful forms and many habitats, this site is a part of a rare and wild beauty. One kilometer long and 80 meters high, this site was occupied by prehistoric man and then changed to a fort and cited the Middle Ages to early Renaissance.
In the afternoon you reach the Castle Commarque. Around his dizzying Dungeon built in 1380, archaeologists discovered buried his vegetation for 350 years the ruins of a fortified village with its houses carved into the rock.

Day 5: Campaign to Sireuil via Andrix

Nice last step through the forest of Barade. Stop Proumeyssac cave, also called the Crystal Cathedral. Visit conditioned by our times.

Day 6: End of stay.

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