CASTLING ST CHRISTOPHE

Fortress & troglodytic city
In the Valley of Vézère classified Inheritance of Humanity by UNESCO. Since millenia a refuge worked by the people of cliffs. At semi-way between Eyzies T Montignac-Lascaux rises to a pick on Vézère cliff of Castling ST Christophe. Remarkable by its powerful forms, its number of habitats and its seniority of occupation by the man, this site constitutes a framework of a rare and wild beauty. This true limestone wall with one Kilometerof length and eighty meters of height, unceasingly undermined by the river and frost, is dugged of about hundred shelters under the rock and of long aerial terraces. These natural cavities were occupied by the man inPrehistory then then were modified to become a fort and a city in the Middle Ages until the beginning of the Renaissance. The visit of Castling ST Christophe makes it possible to have an idea of the mode of installation of the troglodytic dwellings. There, you will discover the print left by our ancestors on the rock as well as an academy of the machines of civil engineering which was reconstituted in homage to the great medieval builders.